title: Bioinspired super-wettability from fundamental research to practical applications.
abstract: Engineered wettability is a traditional, yet key issue in surface science and attracts tremendous interest in solving large-scale practical problems. Recently, different super-wettability systems have been discovered in both nature and experiments. In this Review we present three types of super-wettability, including the three-dimensional, two-dimensional, and one-dimensional material surfaces. By combining different super-wettabilities, novel interfacial functional systems could be generated and integrated into devices for use in tackling current and the future problems including resources, energy, environment, and health.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (P.R. China).
authors.forename: Liping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: Ye
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D032701:Biomimetics / Q000379:methods*; D013499:Surface Properties; D017155:Wettability
keywords: bio-inspired materials; interfaces; surface chemistry; wettability