Black silicon (BSi) represents a very active research area in renewable energy materials.
The rise of BSi as a focus of study for its fundamental properties and potentially lucrative …

Recently, people's daily lives are surrounded by microchips, small devices, consumer
electronics, smart products, and portable electronics etc.(ie, microsystem), which …

An attractive method to response the current energy crisis and produce sustainable
nonpolluting power source is harvesting energy from our living environment. However, the …

Engineering the dropwise condensation of water on surfaces is critical in a wide range of
applications from thermal management (eg heat pipes, chip cooling etc.) to water harvesting …

Despite extensive progress, current icephobic materials are limited by the breakdown of
their icephobicity in the condensation frosting environment. In particular, the frost formation …

Immune cells play vital roles in regulating bone dynamics. Successful bone regeneration
requires a favourable osteo-immune environment. The high plasticity and diversity of …

Plasma etching, a conventional technique in semiconductor industry, has exhibited great
potentials in fabricating nanoscale patterns by taking advantage of its high anisotropic …

Superhydrophobic surfaces without low surface-energy (hydrophobic) modification such as
silanization or (fluoro) polymer coatings are crucial for water-repellent applications that need …

Omniphobic surfaces with reentrant microstructures have been investigated for a range of
applications, but the evaporation of high-and low-surface-tension liquid droplets placed on …

超疏水表面功能材料在防污, 流动减阻等领域具有重要应用, 其中液-气界面的稳定性是关系到该
种材料性能发挥的关键因素. 微结构液-气界面的稳定性主要体现在浸润状态转变过程 …