Droplet impact is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, daily life, and industrial processes. It
is thus crucial to tune the impact outcomes for various applications. As a special outcome of …

As a fundamental feature of solid surfaces, wettability is playing an increasingly important
role in our daily life. Benefitting from the inspiration of biological paradigms and the …

On‐skin electronic systems represent a burgeoning technology that develops wearable
devices capable of adapting to the dynamic surfaces of the human body. Present film‐based …

Hydrogel strain sensors have attracted tremendous attention in medical monitoring, flexible
wearable devices, and human–machine interfaces. However, traditional hydrogels exhibit …

Superwettable Janus membranes with unique interfacial characteristics have versatile
applications in oil/water separation, microfluid transportation, and membrane distillation …

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have emerged as promising portable and sustainable
energy sources in daily life, harvesting energy from human motion, water, and wind …

A surface with asymmetric microstructures for self-driven directional spreading of liquid has
attracted keen interest from researchers in recent years for its great application prospects …

Hypothesis Wetting characterization and the production of engineered surfaces showing
distinct contact angles or spreading behavior is of major importance for many industrial and …

Wings of the Formosan subterranean termite (Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki) covered
with micrometer-scale hairs and nanometer-scale wax patches, allow them to greatly reduce …

Effective maintenance of lubricants within the frictional interface is of great importance for the
long-life operation of mechanical components. This paper proposes a wedge-shaped …