Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Undesired ice accumulation leads to severe economic issues and, in some cases, loss of
lives. Although research on anti-icing has been carried out for decades, environmentally …

Achieving timely, reversible, and long-range remote tunability over surface wettability is
highly demanded across diverse fields, including nanofluidic systems, drug delivery, and …

The mechanism of ice nucleation at the molecular level remains largely unknown. Nature
endows antifreeze proteins (AFPs) with the unique capability of controlling ice formation …

The wettability of graphene remains controversial owing to its high sensitivity to the
surroundings, which is reflected by the wide range of reported water contact angle (WCA) …

Over the past few decades, significant progress has been made in micro-and nanoscale
heat transfer. Numerous computational methods have been developed to quantitatively …

A sum-frequency spectroscopy scheme is developed that allows the measurement of
vibrational spectra of the interfacial molecular structure of charged water interfaces. The …

The notion of asymmetrical Hydrogen Bond (O: HO) Cooperativity and Polarizability (HBCP)
has enabled exploration of the core physics behind irregularities of water and ice …

The concept of “water structure” has been invoked to explain all manner of aqueous
phenomena. Here we look at the origins of this tendency to understand solute hydration in …

The hydroxylation behavior of water on the quartz surface plays an important role in many
fields. In this paper, the surface hydroxylation behavior of quartz and the molecular …