Spider silk is a natural polymeric fiber with high tensile strength, toughness, and has distinct
thermal, optical, and biocompatible properties. The mechanical properties of spider silk are …

Water manipulation is crucial for a wide range of engineering applications, such as
microfluidics, heat transfer, desalination, and water harvesting. Despite scientific …

Membrane separation technology has significant advantages for treating oil-in-water
emulsions. Understanding the evolution of oil droplets could reveal the interfacial and …

Nowadays, the pollution of water has become worse in many parts of the world, which
causes a severe shortage of clean water and attracts widespread attention worldwide …

Freshwater scarcity has become a critical global challenge affecting some of the most
vulnerable populations. In response, significant effort has focused on ways to increase …

Surfaces with star-shaped wettability patterns can be fabricated following the procedures in
Figure 1. At first, a superhydrophilic surface can be fabricated by depositing TiO 2 slurry onto …

Inspired by the self‐cleaning phenomenon in nature biology, superwettable materials
systems have been increasingly studied by multidisciplinary scientists in past two decades …

Liquid flowing around a solid edge, ie, overflow, is a commonly observed flow behavior.
Recent research into surface wetting properties and microstructure-controlled overflow …

Superwetting interfaces arising from the cooperation of surface energy and multiscale
micro/nanostructures are extensively studied in biological systems. Fundamental …

Liquid mobility on super-wettable materials is of interest for enhanced heat transfer, self-
cleaning, anti-fouling, anti-icing, water-harvesting, and oil–water separation. Here, we …