This review comprises a detailed survey of ongoing methodologies for soft actuators,
highlighting approaches suitable for nanometer‐to centimeter‐scale robotic applications …

Superoleophobicity is a phenomenon where the contact angles of various oil droplets with
low surface tension on a solid surface are larger than 150°. In the past few years, there has …

Natural creatures use their surface structures to control directional liquid dynamics for
survival. Learning from nature, artificial superwetting materials have triggered technological …

To add more functionalities and overcome the limitation in conventional soft robots, highly
anisotropic soft actuators with color shifting function during actuation is demonstrated for the …

Controlling surface wettability and directing the flow of working fluids have crucial
implications in various natural and engineering contexts. Understanding the fundamental …

As new generation functional materials, the recently emerging low‐melting liquid metals
have displayed many unconventional properties superior to traditional materials. Various …

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 …

This review reports the progress on the recent development of micromixers. The review first
presents the different micromixer types and designs. Micromixers in this review are …

Bioinspired surfaces with special wettability and adhesion have attracted great interest in
both fundamental research and industry applications. Various kinds of special wetting …

Ferrofluids, also known as ferromagnetic particle suspensions, are materials with an
excellent magnetic response, which have attracted increasing interest in both industrial …