Microfluidics offer economy of reagents, rapid liquid delivery, and potential for automation of
many reactions, but often require peripheral equipment for flow control. Capillary …

This review summarizes the controllable flow and manipulation of gallium‐based liquid
metals (eg, eutectic gallium indium, EGaIn). There are generally only a few ways to handle …

The widespread use of molecular machines in biology has long suggested that great
rewards could come from bridging the gap between synthetic molecular systems and the …

Many biological surfaces are capable of transporting liquids in a directional manner without
energy consumption. Inspired by nature, constructing asymmetric gradient surfaces to …

The ability to manipulate droplets on a substrate using electric signals—known as digital
microfluidics—is used in optical,, biomedical,, thermal and electronic applications and has …

Controlling the wetting behaviour of liquids on surfaces is important for a variety of industrial
applications such as water-repellent coatings and lubrication. Liquid behaviour on a surface …

In this review we focus on recent developments in applications of bio‐inspired special
wettable surfaces. We highlight surface materials that in recent years have shown to be the …

We present a method to control the interfacial tension of a liquid alloy of gallium via
electrochemical deposition (or removal) of the oxide layer on its surface. In sharp contrast …

Microfluidic devices for manipulating fluids are widespread and finding uses in many
scientific and industrial contexts. Their design often requires unusual geometries and the …

Microfabricated integrated circuits revolutionized computation by vastly reducing the space,
labor, and time required for calculations. Microfluidic systems hold similar promise for the …