Ferrofluids, also known as ferromagnetic particle suspensions, are materials with an
excellent magnetic response, which have attracted increasing interest in both industrial …

Surfaces with controllable liquid wettability and related functions have gained increasing
attention from interfacial scientists due to the high demand of fundamental research and …

Two typical aspects of wettability on functional surfaces, namely, ultrahigh adhesion and
anisotropic wettability, have attracted considerable interest for practical applications. A new …

Large-scale fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces with excellent durability by simple
techniques has been of considerable interest for its urgent practical application in oil–water …

Here, a smart fluid‐controlled surface is designed, via the rational integration of the unique
properties of three natural examples, ie, the unidirectional wetting behaviors of butterfly's …

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 …

Superhydrophobic surfaces with tunable adhesion from lotus-leaf to rose-petal states have
generated much attention for their potential applications in self-cleaning, anti-icing, oil–water …

Ferrofluids are liquids exhibiting remarkably strong response to magnetic fields, which leads
to fascinating properties useful in various applications. Understanding the wetting properties …

The fascinating behavior of ferrofluids in a magnetic field has been intriguing researchers for
many years. With the advancement in digital microfluidics, ferrofluid droplets have been …

A superhydrophilic surface decorated with 2D hydrophobic water barriers is proven to be a
potential platform for unidirectional liquid transport. Differing from the existing systems based …