Droplet impact behaviours are widely applied in a variety of domains including self-cleaning,
painting and coating, corrosion of turbine blades and aircraft, separation and oil repellency …

The effective control of droplet coalescence and impact behaviors on solid surfaces plays a
crucial role in various fields, such as material science, environmental science, energy …

When exposed to air, gallium-based alloys rapidly form a thin oxide layer with viscoelasticity
and high adhesion. Although previous work demonstrated that an oxide layer inhibits liquid …

When a water droplet strikes a superhydrophobic surface, there may be several to a few tens
of rebounds before it comes to rest. Although this intriguing multiphase flow phenomenon …

Hypothesis The unbalanced capillary force provided by wettability patterns, non-
uniform/asymmetric microtextures enables directional droplet transport, while macrotextures …

Bouncing droplets on solid surfaces is of great significance in diversified applications such
as anti-icing and self-cleaning. It is important to establish a unified model to predict whether …

Eye-catching shapes are produced when water drops land vertically and spread on
horizontal surfaces with micropillars arranged in regular square arrays. The positions of …

Femtosecond (fs) laser, as an efficient and precise microfabrication tool, has been widely
used in material processing. Superhydrophobic surfaces have many applications in anti …

Many fields would greatly benefit from the realization of the manipulation of droplet impact
behavior by an asymmetric surface structure, such as self-cleaning, anti-icing, inkjet printing …

Water droplets impinging on micro-grooved polydimethylsiloxane surfaces were studied.
Depending on the impact velocity and surface roughness, different phenomena such as no …