Energy shortage and environmental deterioration have become two intractable global
issues with the eruptive evolution of industry and technology. Porous-engineered …

Electrochemical reduction of CO2 into value-added fuels and chemicals driven by
renewable energy presents a potentially sustainable route to mitigate CO2 emissions and …

Electrospinning as a versatile technology has attracted a large amount of attention in the
past few decades due to the facile way to produce micro-and nano-scale fibers featuring …

The major strategies for designing surfaces that prevent fouling due to proteins, bacteria,
and marine organisms are reviewed. Biofouling is of great concern in numerous applications …

Academic and industrial research on nanofibres is an area of increasing global interest, as
seen in the continuously multiplying number of research papers and patents and the …

Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world. The main sources exploited
are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs. Our objective is to appraise the state of the …

Inspired by the self-cleaning and water-repellent properties of plants and animals in the
natural world, superhydrophobic and superoleophobic materials develop quickly, and are of …

A superhydrophobic surface is a surface with a water contact angle close to or higher than
150°. In this feature article, we review the historical and present research on …

This review describes state-of-the-art scientific and technological developments of
electrospun nanofibers and their use in self-cleaning membranes, responsive smart …

Biomimetics provides a model for developments of functional surfaces with special
wettability. Recently, manufacturing bio-inspired superhydrophobic surfaces has become an …