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

Bubbles play a ubiquitous role in electrochemical gas evolution reactions. However, a
mechanistic understanding of how bubbles affect the energy efficiency of electrochemical …

Contactless bubble manipulation with a high spatiotemporal resolution brings a qualitative
leap forward in a variety of applications. Despite considerable advances, light-induced …

Hypothesis Sessile droplets solubilizing in surfactant solution are frequently encountered in
practice, but the factors governing their non-equilibrium dynamics are not well understood …

Photoresponsive hydrogels are an emerging class of stimuli-responsive materials that
exhibit changes in physical or chemical properties in response to light. Previous …

Molecular photoswitches provide a means for imparting synthetic structures with intrinsically
logical and highly tunable photoresponsive properties. One variety of organic photoswitches …

Optofluidics, which utilizes the interactions between light and fluids to realize various
functions, has garnered increasing attention owing to the advantages of operational …

Precise manipulation of the droplet is essential in both fundamental research and practical
applications, from cargo pick-up to biological diagnostics, thus functional surfaces with …

Bioelectronics, the merging of biology and electronics, can monitor and modulate biological
behaviors across length and time scales with unprecedented capability. Current …

Directed transportation and collection of liquids and bubbles play a vital role in the survival
of ecosystems. Among them, the optical response control is widely used in the fields of …