Recent advances in the area of the wetting of leaf areas are reviewed with particular
emphasis on their relation to agrochemical application. Areas reviewed include leaf wax …

A novel instrument allows for the first time measurements of the lateral adhesion forces at a
solid-liquid interface, f∥, in a way that is decoupled from the normal forces, f⊥. We use it to …

Inspired by novel creatures, researchers have developed varieties of fog drop transport
systems and made significant contributions to the fields of heat transferring, water collecting …

Many biological materials utilize hierarchical surface structures to achieve their wetting-
based functions, eg self-cleaning and antifogging. In this paper, a classification method is …

The wetting and adhesion characteristics of 20 different surfaces have been studied
systematically by both static water contact angle (θ) and dynamic contact angle …

The shortcomings of the current formulation for calculating the adhesion force for drops and
bubbles with noncircular contact lines are discussed. A general formulation to evaluate the …

Evaporation of water droplets deposited on metal and polymer substrates was studied. The
evaporated droplet demonstrates different behavior on weakly pinning (polymer) and …

We review the subject of drops on surfaces from the early days of Young through the
concept of line tension (line energy) and the equations of Furmidge and Dussan to the more …

Surface science, which includes the preparation, development and analysis of surfaces and
coatings, is essential in both fundamental and applied as well as in engineering and …

The problem of wetting is discussed in the framework of the variational approach. It is shown
that the Young, Boruvka–Neumann, Wenzel and Cassie–Baxter equations result from the …