This review comprises a detailed survey of ongoing methodologies for soft actuators,
highlighting approaches suitable for nanometer‐to centimeter‐scale robotic applications …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of published literatures concerning the fluid
mechanics and heat transfer mechanisms of liquid drop impact on a heated wall. The review …

Conventional understanding has it that a liquid deposited on a surface tends to move along
directions that reduce surface energy, which is mainly dictated by surface properties rather …

A liquid droplet dispensed over a sufficiently hot surface does not make contact but instead
hovers on a cushion of its own self-generated vapor. Since its discovery in 1756, this so …

It has been recently shown that the presence of macrotextures on superhydrophobic
materials can markedly modify the dynamics of water impacting them, and in particular …

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is one of the most widely used nanomaterials in our daily life. In
1972, Fujishima and Honda reported the photo electrolysis of water into H2 and O2 utilizing …

The subject of the present thesis is the numerical modeling and investigation of boiling
phenomena. The heat transfer during boiling is highly efficient and therefore used for many …

This review discusses how drops can levitate on a cushion of vapor when brought in contact
with a hot solid. This is the so-called Leidenfrost phenomenon, a dynamical and transient …

Nature is the creation of aesthetic functional systems, in which many natural materials have
vagarious structures. Inspired from nature, such as lotus leaf, butterfly'wings, showing …

In 1756, Leidenfrost observed that water drops skittered on a sufficiently hot skillet, owing to
levitation by an evaporative vapour film. Such films are stable only when the hot surface is …