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A bioinspired multilegged soft millirobot that functions in both dry and wet conditions by Lu, Haojian, Zhang, Mei, Yang, Yuanyuan, Huang, Qiang, Fukuda, Toshio, Wang, Zuankai, Shen, Yajing

“…Developing untethered millirobots that can adapt to harsh environments with high locomotion efficiency is of interest for emerging applications in various…”
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Recurrent Filmwise and Dropwise Condensation on a Beetle Mimetic Surface by Hou, Youmin, Yu, Miao, Chen, Xuemei, Wang, Zuankai, Yao, Shuhuai

“…Vapor condensation plays a key role in a wide range of industrial applications including power generation, thermal management, water harvesting and…”
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Three-dimensional capillary ratchet-induced liquid directional steering by Feng, Shile, Zhu, Pingan, Zheng, Huanxi, Zhan, Haiyang, Chen, Chen, Li, Jiaqian, Wang, Liqiu, Yao, Xi, Liu, Yahua, Wang, Zuankai

“…Conventional understanding has it that a liquid deposited on a surface tends to move along directions that reduce surface energy, which is mainly dictated by…”
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Tesla valves and capillary structures-activated thermal regulator by Li, Wenming, Yang, Siyan, Chen, Yongping, Li, Chen, Wang, Zuankai

“…Two-phase (liquid, vapor) flow in confined spaces is fundamentally interesting and practically important in many practical applications such as thermal…”
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Achieving efficient power generation by designing bioinspired and multi-layered interfacial evaporator by Sun, Zhuangzhi, Han, Chuanlong, Gao, Shouwei, Li, Zhaoxin, Jing, Mingxing, Yu, Haipeng, Wang, Zuankai

“…Water evaporation is a natural phase change phenomenon occurring any time and everywhere. Enormous efforts have been made to harvest energy from this…”
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Bio-inspired reversible underwater adhesive by Zhao, Yanhua, Wu, Yang, Wang, Liang, Zhang, Manman, Chen, Xuan, Liu, Minjie, Fan, Jun, Liu, Junqiu, Zhou, Feng, Wang, Zuankai

“…The design of smart surfaces with switchable adhesive properties in a wet environment has remained a challenge in adhesion science and materials engineering…”
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Highly Solar-Reflective Structures for Daytime Radiative Cooling under High Humidity by Zhong, Hongmei, Zhang, Peng, Li, Yanan, Yang, Xiaochen, Zhao, Yang, Wang, Zuankai

“…Daytime radiative cooling is a passive strategy to cool down a terrestrial object under direct sunlight without the need of electricity input. It functions by…”
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Surface charge printing for programmed droplet transport by Sun, Qiangqiang, Wang, Dehui, Li, Yanan, Zhang, Jiahui, Ye, Shuji, Cui, Jiaxi, Chen, Longquan, Wang, Zuankai, Butt, Hans-Jürgen, Vollmer, Doris, Deng, Xu

“…The directed, long-range and self-propelled transport of droplets on solid surfaces is crucial for many applications from water harvesting to bio-analysis 1 –…”
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Pancake bouncing on superhydrophobic surfaces by Liu, Yahua, Moevius, Lisa, Xu, Xinpeng, Qian, Tiezheng, Yeomans, Julia M., Wang, Zuankai

“…When a water drop bounces back from a hydrophobic surface, its initial, spherical shape is usually restored. Now, experiments with a specially engineered…”
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Transforming Ti3C2Tx MXene’s intrinsic hydrophilicity into superhydrophobicity for efficient photothermal membrane desalination by Zhang, Baoping, Wong, Pak Wai, Guo, Jiaxin, Zhou, Yongsen, Wang, Yang, Sun, Jiawei, Jiang, Mengnan, Wang, Zuankai, An, Alicia Kyoungjin

“…Owing to its 100% theoretical salt rejection capability, membrane distillation (MD) has emerged as a promising seawater desalination approach to address…”
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Nanograssed Micropyramidal Architectures for Continuous Dropwise Condensation by Chen, Xuemei, Wu, Jun, Ma, Ruiyuan, Hua, Meng, Koratkar, Nikhil, Yao, Shuhuai, Wang, Zuankai

“…Engineering the dropwise condensation of water on surfaces is critical in a wide range of applications from thermal management (e.g. heat pipes, chip cooling…”
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Inhibiting the Leidenfrost effect above 1,000 °C for sustained thermal cooling by Jiang, Mengnan, Wang, Yang, Liu, Fayu, Du, Hanheng, Li, Yuchao, Zhang, Huanhuan, To, Suet, Wang, Steven, Pan, Chin, Yu, Jihong, Quéré, David, Wang, Zuankai

“…The Leidenfrost effect, namely the levitation of drops on hot solids 1 , is known to deteriorate heat transfer at high temperature 2 . The Leidenfrost point…”
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Directional transport of high-temperature Janus droplets mediated by structural topography by Li, Jing, Hou, Youmin, Liu, Yahua, Hao, Chonglei, Li, Minfei, Chaudhury, Manoj K., Yao, Shuhuai, Wang, Zuankai

“…Directed motion of liquid droplets is of considerable importance in various water and thermal management technologies. Although various methods to generate…”
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Remote Control over Underwater Dynamic Attachment/Detachment and Locomotion by Ma, Yanfei, Ma, Shuanhong, Wu, Yang, Pei, Xiaowei, Gorb, Stanislav N., Wang, Zuankai, Liu, Weimin, Zhou, Feng

“…Despite extensive efforts to mimic the fascinating adhesion capability of geckos, the development of reversible adhesives underwater has long been lagging. The…”
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Long-range spontaneous droplet self-propulsion on wettability gradient surfaces by Liu, Chaoran, Sun, Jing, Li, Jing, Xiang, Chenghao, Che, Lufeng, Wang, Zuankai, Zhou, Xiaofeng

“…The directional and long-range droplet transportation is of great importance in microfluidic systems. However, it usually requires external energy input. Here…”
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Hierarchical hollow MoS2 microspheres as materials for conductometric NO2 gas sensors by Li, Yixue, Song, Zhongxiao, Li, Yanan, Chen, Shuai, Li, Sha, Li, Yanhuai, Wang, Hairong, Wang, Zuankai

“…•In this manuscript, the MoS2 hollow spheres with micro-nano hierarchical structures were successfully prepared by a one-step template hydrothermal method and…”
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Monolithic Integrated Flexible Yet Robust Droplet‐Based Electricity Generator by Wang, Lili, Li, Wanbo, Song, Yuxin, Xu, Wanghuai, Jin, Yuankai, Zhang, Chao, Wang, Zuankai

“…Developing robust technologies to harvest energy from ambient environments is critical to applications in self‐powered electronics. As a promising candidate,…”
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Finger-inspired rigid-soft hybrid tactile sensor with superior sensitivity at high frequency by Zhang, Jinhui, Yao, Haimin, Mo, Jiaying, Chen, Songyue, Xie, Yu, Ma, Shenglin, Chen, Rui, Luo, Tao, Ling, Weisong, Qin, Lifeng, Wang, Zuankai, Zhou, Wei

“…Among kinds of flexible tactile sensors, piezoelectric tactile sensor has the advantage of fast response for dynamic force detection. However, it suffers from…”
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Achieving ultrahigh instantaneous power density of 10 MW/m2 by leveraging the opposite-charge-enhanced transistor-like triboelectric nanogenerator (OCT-TENG) by Wu, Hao, Wang, Steven, Wang, Zuankai, Zi, Yunlong

“…Converting various types of ambient mechanical energy into electricity, triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has attracted worldwide attention. Despite its…”
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Harnessing Solar‐Driven Photothermal Effect toward the Water–Energy Nexus by Zhang, Chao, Liang, Hong‐Qing, Xu, Zhi‐Kang, Wang, Zuankai

“…Producing affordable freshwater has been considered as a great societal challenge, and most conventional desalination technologies are usually accompanied with…”
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