Liquid-vapor phase-change processes have been widely exploited in industrial applications
including power generation, water processing and harvesting, cooling/refrigeration and …

Liquid–vapor phase change including evaporation, boiling, and condensation is a
ubiquitous process found in power generation, desalination, thermal management, building …

Interest in new thermal diodes, regulators, and switches has been rapidly growing because
these components have the potential for rich transport phenomena that cannot be achieved …

Coalescence-induced droplet jum** has the potential to enhance the efficiency of a
plethora of applications. Although binary droplet jum** is quantitatively understood from …

It was recently discovered that condensation growing on a nanostructured
superhydrophobic surface can spontaneously jump off the surface, triggered by naturally …

Droplet transport on, and shedding from, surfaces is ubiquitous in nature and is a key
phenomenon governing applications including biofluidics, self-cleaning, anti-icing, water …

When two liquid droplets coalesce on a superrepellent surface, the excess surface energy is
partly converted to upward kinetic energy, and the coalesced droplet jumps away from the …

Evaporation of liquid is important in a diverse range of engineering applications, such as ink-
jet printing, pesticide spraying, micro-and nanofabrication, thin-film coatings, biochemical …

Constructing asymmetric two-dimensional (2D) mesoporous nanomaterials with new pore
structure, tunable monolayer architectures, and especially anisotropic surfaces remains a …

Microscale droplet generation and manipulation have widespread applications in numerous
fields, from biochemical assays to printing and additive manufacturing. There are several …