Liquid-repellent surfaces, especially smooth solid surfaces with covalently grafted flexible
polymer brushes or alkyl monolayers, are the focus of an expanding research area. Surface …

Superhydrophobicity is the tendency of a surface to repel water drops. A surface is qualified
as a superhydrophobic surface only if the surface possesses a high apparent contact angle …

Hydrogel modified porous matrix with the super‐wetting surface (ie, super‐hydrophilic/
underwater super‐oleophobic) is ideal for oil/water separation. However, the deterioration in …

The oil spill clean-up from water bodies is a major challenge in recent years because of the
rise in pollution due to human activities. To tackle these environmental issues, we report the …

In recent years, various slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPSs) have been reported
in protection of various materials. However, these SLIPSs are restricted to specific …

Undesired ice accumulation leads to severe economic issues and, in some cases, loss of
lives. Although research on anti-icing has been carried out for decades, environmentally …

Superhydrophobic self-cleaning surfaces are based on the surface micro/nanomorphologies
; however, such surfaces are mechanically weak and stop functioning when exposed to oil …

Oil/water separation has been a worldwide subject because of increasing release of
industrial oily wastewater as well as frequent crude oil leakage.[1] Traditional techniques for …

As a kind of important semi-solid material, the gel has gained increasing attention due to the
high demand for fundamental research and practical applications. Organogels are gels …

The porous polymeric membranes prepared by conventional nonsolvent‐induced phase
separation (NIPS) suffer from notorious fouling pollution during oil/water separation. Herein …