The new surface integrates short hydrophobic nanowires and hydrophilic microchannels in a structured pattern. This combination helps guide water droplets efficiently off the surface, preventing ...

Fog harvesting (or dew catching) is an ancient practice dating as far back as the Incas, who placed buckets under trees to ...

University of Pennsylvania researchers accidentally stumbled onto a novel material that can pull water from the air without requiring external energy.   While testing a mix of hydrophilic nanopores ...

“This hydrophilic-hydrophobic feature of the aero-GaN allows it to skim over the surface like a flying water lily beetle, which is tethered to the water by four hydrophilic claws, the rest of its body ...

They contain both hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions and are able to attract and “hold hands” with polar and non-polar molecules simultaneously, pulling them together to form a special type of ...

On the hydrophobic (literally 'water hating') part of the surface, the force is roughly ten times greater than that needed when the bacterial cell adheres to the hydrophilic ('water loving') region.

This process introduced numerous hydrophilic sites. They then selectively modified some of these sites with a hydrophobic compound, octadecylamine (ODA), creating a carefully controlled pattern of ...

We show here that these large droplets form by virtue of the insect's bumpy surface, which consists of alternating hydrophobic, wax-coated and hydrophilic, non-waxy regions.

Scientists have created a material that can be continuously tweaked between hydrophobic and hydrophilic states. 2 / 2. A diagram of the new adaptive material. Last year, ...

A 3D hybrid surface combining hydrophobic nanowires and hydrophilic microchannels efficiently removes condensate, preventing flooding and maintaining high heat transfer even at high subcooling.