Electrolytes have recently regained significant attention in rechargeable batteries due to the
discovery that the electrolyte microstructures play a determinant role in battery performance …

Liquid manipulation plays an increasingly critical role in daily life and future technological
processes. Although intensive attention is paid on controlling droplets, how to manipulate …

Tunable optical devices are of great interest as they offer adjustability to their functions.
Temporal optics is a fast-evolving field, which may be useful both for revolutionizing basic …

Rockwall erosion by rockfall is largely controlled by frost weathering in high alpine
environments. As alpine rock types are characterized by crack‐dominated porosity and high …

Premelting of ice, a quasi-liquid layer (QLL) at the surface below the melting temperature,
was first postulated by Michael Faraday 160 y ago. Since then, it has been extensively …

The wetting of soft elastic substrates exhibits many features that have no counterpart on rigid
surfaces. Modelling the detailed elastocapillary interactions is challenging, and has so far …

Using Lifshitz theory, we assess the role of van der Waals forces at interfaces of ice and
water. The results are combined with measured structural forces from computer simulations …

Freezing of water is the most common liquid-to-crystal phase transition on Earth; however,
despite its critical implications on climate change and cryopreservation among other …

When materials freeze, they often undergo damage due to ice growth. Although this damage
is commonly ascribed to the volumetric expansion of water upon freezing, it is usually driven …

Homogeneous nucleation is the prominent mechanism of glaciation in cirrus and other high-
altitude clouds. Ice nucleation rates can be studied in laboratory assays that gradually lower …