High thermal conductivity, structural stability, good mechanical and anti-oxidant properties
makes hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) a promising functional filler for polymers to produce …

Collecting microscale water droplets suspended in the wind, that is, fog, using permeable
surfaces is a promising solution to the worldwide problem of water scarcity and is of great …

Reentrant feature widely exists in natural structures ranging from mushroom, overhang,
undercut, trapezoid, sphere, spatula and taper to sharp edge, and has triggered a …

The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in the field of droplet-based
microfluidics for their multifarious applications. Despite rapid innovations in strategies to …

We might be at the turning point where research in microfluidics undertaken in academia
and industrial research laboratories, and substantially sponsored by public grants, may …

The ability to gate (ie, allow or block) droplet and fluid transport in a directional manner
represents an important form of liquid manipulation and has tremendous application …

Smart surfaces with tunable wettability have aroused much attention in the past few years.
However, to obtain a surface that can reversibly transit between the lotus‐leaf‐like …

The power of the directional and spontaneous transport of liquid droplets is revealed
through ubiquitous biological processes and numerous practical applications, where …

A facile strategy for the preparation of multifunctional Janus membranes (JMs) was
proposed, and excellent controllability of the multifunctional JMs was demonstrated in water …

Transporting water and oil microdroplets is important for applications ranging from water
harvesting to biomedical analysis but remains a great challenge. This is due to the amplified …