BACKGROUND Surfaces that control solid, liquid, or vapor accretion have numerous
applications, including self-cleaning windows and solar panels; water and fog harvesting; …

The industrial revolution has led to different types of environmental pollution, including
frequent leakage of crude oil to marine waters and the contamination of wastewater with …

The wettability of solid surfaces is a renewed old topic that has impacted most fields of
science and technology for a long time, from cave painting in the ancient to microfluidic …

Superhydrophobic surfaces have shown versatile applications in waterproofing, self‐
cleaning, drag reduction, selective absorption, etc. The most convenient and universally …

This chapter highlights a variety of techniques that are commonly used to measure contact
angles, including the conventional telescope-goniometer method, the Wilhelmy balance …

Synthetic superhydrophobic (SH) surfaces were developed after 1990s, and the number of
publications in this field is around 13 500 at present. However, the industrial production of …

In today's world, clean energy storage devices, such as batteries, fuel cells, and
electrochemical capacitors, have been recognized as one of the next‐generation …

Through billions of years of evolution and natural selection, biological systems have
developed strategies to achieve advantageous unification between structure and bulk …

Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) is a powerful technology for producing high-quality solid
thin films and coatings. Although widely used in modern industries, it is continuously being …

The unique structure of a vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) array makes it
behave most similarly to a blackbody. It is reported that the optical absorptivity of an …