Microfluidic hydrogel microspheres have been broadly studied across a wide range of
industries and applications, and their use in the medical field, including control cells and …

Hydrogel microspheres are a novel functional material, arousing much attention in various
fields. Microfluidics, a technology that controls and manipulates fluids at the micron scale …

Biological systems have evolved over billions of years to develop wetting strategies for
advantageous structure–property–performance relations that are crucial for their survival …

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 …

A surface is said to be isotropic in wettability when the contact angles measured in all
direction are identical. On the contrary, once a surface shows distinct contact angles in …

Understanding the relationship between liquid manipulation and micro‐/nanostructured
interfaces has gained much attention due to the wide potential applications in many fields …

Conspectus Porous membranes are playing paramount roles in the areas of wastewater
treatment, chemical analysis, energy storage and conversion, flexible devices, and …

In spite of large amount of research in fabricating surfaces of varying wettability by
biomimicking the naturally occurring surfaces, the work on fundamentally and industrially …

Fluidic flow behaviors in microfluidics are dominated by the interfaces created between the
fluids and the inner surface walls of microchannels. Microchannel inner surface designs …

The rapid advancement of laser technology in engineering sectors has expanded its
application scope, particularly in modifying material surface properties, resulting in cutting …