Nature is a school for scientists and engineers. After four and a half billion years of stringent
evolution, some creatures in nature exhibit fascinating surface wettability. Biomimetics …

Nature is the creation of aesthetic functional systems, in which many natural materials have
vagarious structures. Inspired from nature, such as lotus leaf, butterfly'wings, showing …

Super-antiwetting interfaces, such as superhydrophobic and superamphiphobic surfaces in
air and superoleophobic interfaces in water, with special liquid− solid adhesion have …

Anisotropic textured surfaces allow water striders to walk on water, butterflies to shed water
from their wings and plants to trap insects and pollen. Capturing these natural features in …

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) polymerization utilizes the delivery of vapor‐phase
monomers to form chemically well‐defined polymeric films directly on the surface of a …

In Nature, directional surfaces on insect cuticle, animal fur, bird feathers, and plant leaves
are composed of dual micro‐nanoscale features that tune roughness and surface energy …

Widespread approaches to fabricate surfaces with robust micro‐and nanostructured
topographies have been stimulated by opportunities to enhance interface performance by …

The removal of oil and organic pollutants from water is highly desired due to frequent oil spill
accidents, as well as the increase of industrial oily wastewater. Here, superhydrophobic and …

Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a promising technique for carrying out miniaturized, automated
biochemical assays in which discrete droplets of reagents are actuated on the surface of an …

Optical biosensors have begun to move from the laboratory to the point of use. This trend will
be accelerated by new concepts for molecular recognition, integration of microfluidics and …