The complex interaction of cells with biomaterials (ie, materiobiology) plays an increasingly
pivotal role in the development of novel implants, biomedical devices, and tissue …

Nanoscience includes the study of objects and systems in which at least one dimension is 1-
100 nm. The objects studied in this range of sizes are larger than atoms and small …

As an efficient method to convert the potential water to the available water, fog collection [1–
3] has been attracting more and more attention with the emergence of the worldwide water …

Metals are important and irreplaceable engineered materials in our society. Nature is a
school for scientists and engineers, which has long served as a source of inspiration for …

Liquid transport (continuous or segmented) in microfluidic platforms typically requires
pumping devices or external fields working collaboratively with special fluid properties to …

The aim of this paper is twofold: first to report on the lateral and vertical characterisation of a
surface chemical gradient of carboxylic‐acid functionality and second, to demonstrate the …

In the pursuit to understand the interaction between cells and their underlying substrates, the
life sciences are beginning to incorporate micro-and nanotechnology-based tools to probe …

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) represent highly ordered molecular materials with
versatile biochemical features and multidisciplinary applications. Research on SAMs has …

Surface gradients of chemistry or morphology represent powerful tools for the high-
throughput investigation of interfacial phenomena in the areas of physics, chemistry …

Chemical and biological sensors have found their niche among modern analytical
instruments when real-time determination of the concentration of specific sample …