Purpose Soil cracking is a common natural phenomenon. The existence of soil cracks has
significant effects on the engineering properties of clayey soil, and can cause significant …

The drying of complex fluids involves a large number of microscopic phenomena (transport
and organization of non-volatile solutes) as well as hydrodynamic and mechanical …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201604569 maintained or even enhanced with increasing wettability,
there will be a big space for further improvement of supercapacitive performance. As known …

As sessile drops of aqueous colloidal suspensions dry, a close-packed particle deposit
forms that grows from the edge of the drop toward the center. To compensate for evaporation …

Dry shrinkage cracking of soil is a common phenomenon in nature. The shrinking and
cracking of soil have been linked to several geological disasters. To simulate dry shrinkage …

Relatively few engineering devices and structures are monolithic, as combinations of
materials are often needed to meet the necessary functionality, performance, weight, and …

Drying complex fluids is a common phenomenon where a liquid phase transforms into a
dense or porous solid. This transformation involves several physical processes, such as the …

Fascinating pattern formation by quasi-static crack growth in thin films has received
increasing interest in both interdisciplinary science and engineering applications. The paper …

Plato envisioned Earth's building blocks as cubes, a shape rarely found in nature. The solar
system is littered, however, with distorted polyhedra—shards of rock and ice produced by …

This review covers experimental results of evaporative lithography and analyzes existing
mathematical models of this method. Evaporating droplets and films are used in different …