Over the past decade, there have been many successful attempts at artificially reproducing
the surface structures found on natural superhydrophobic surfaces. The researchers have …

Benefiting from inherent lightweight, flexibility, and good adaptability to human body,
functional textiles are attracting tremendous attention to cope with wearable issues in …

Oil leakage and the discharge of organic wastewater have not only threatened the
ecosystem, but also greatly aggravated water scarcity. The separation of oil-water mixture …

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

The frequent occurrence of crude oil leakage accidents and the massive discharge of
industrial oily wastewater not only caused huge damage and pollution to the ecosystem but …

Chemistry and topography are the two distinct available tools for customizing different bio-
inspired liquid wettability including superhydrophobicity, superamphiphobicity, underwater …

The formation and accumulation of ice can lead to severe economic loss or even loss of life.
To prevent these losses, there has been rapid development in icephobic materials in recent …

This review is devoted to the application of bulk synthetic polymers such as polysulfone
(PSf), polyethersulfone (PES), polyacrylonitrile (PAN), and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) for …

Superhydrophobic cellulose-based products have immense potential in many industries
where plastics and other polymers with hydrophobic properties are used. Superhydrophobic …

Clean water resources are essential to our human society. Oil leakage has caused water
contamination, which leads to serious shortage of clean water, environmental deterioration …