(Nanowerk News) Inspired by a kind of tree leaf, scientists at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) discovered that the spreading direction of different liquids deposited on the same surface can be ...

Over billions of years of evolution, many organisms in nature have exhibited unique surface wettability. For example, lotus leaves have the self-cleaning function. Water striders can walk on water.

A research team at Aalto University in Finland has developed a perovskite solar cell based on a “light management layer” made of a polymer material with the surface of leek leaves that can reportedly ...