Nature is a school for scientists and engineers. After four and a half billion years of stringent
evolution, some creatures in nature exhibit fascinating surface wettability. Biomimetics …

The illumination of azobenzene molecules with UV/visible light efficiently converts the
molecules between trans and cis isomerization states. Isomerization is accompanied by a …

Fog harvesting is a useful technique for obtaining fresh water in arid climates. The wire
meshes currently utilized for fog harvesting suffer from dual constraints: coarse meshes …

The surface wettability control of solid materials has been considered as an essential aspect
of surface chemistry. In the past decade, superhydrophobic surfaces have revealed a …

Controlling surface wettability and liquid spreading on patterned surfaces is of significant
interest for a broad range of applications, including DNA microarrays, digital lab-on-a-chip …

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 …

Water shortages are currently becoming more and more serious due to complicated factors
such as the development of the economy, environmental pollution, and climate deterioration …

We review our 2006− 2009 publications on wetting and superhydrophobicity in a manner
designed to serve as a useful primer for those who would like to use the concepts of this …

Surface wettability, a property that governs the interaction between the solid and liquid
phases, is central in various biological systems and technological applications. A typical …

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 …