This review discusses the use of the combination of surface roughness and hydrophobicity
for engineering large slip at the fluid-solid interface. These superhydrophobic surfaces were …

In the development of next‐generation materials with enhanced thermal properties,
biological systems in nature provide many examples that have exceptional structural …

Bio‐inspired fog harvesting devices (FHDs) have been exploited to address water
shortages. Despite the advances achieved, efficient and continuous fog harvesting is still …

The rigorous derivation of Young, Cassie–Baxter and Wenzel equations carried out in the
framework of the unified thermodynamic approach is presented. Wetting of rough surfaces …

The interest in highly water‐repellent surfaces has grown in recent years due to the desire
for self‐cleaning surfaces. A super‐hydrophobic surface is one that achieves a water contact …

Directional droplet transport on smart surfaces with superwettabilities arouse extensive
attentions from both the scientific community and industry due to the exciting applications in …

Effective manipulation of liquids on open surfaces without external energy input is
indispensable for the advancement of point-of-care diagnostic devices. Open-surface …

Bioinspired smart functional surfaces have received increasing attention in recent years
owed to their tunable wettability and enhanced droplet transport suggesting them as …

Technologies related to hydrophobic coatings have been applied to various industrial items
for droplet formation and removal from solid surfaces. However, for such surfaces, excellent …

Surface tension driven droplet transport in an open surface is increasingly becoming
popular for various microfluidic applications. In this work, efficient transport of a glycerin …