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Bioinspired Superwettable Microspine Chips with Directional Droplet Transportation for Biosensing

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Macro-corrugated and nano-patterned hierarchically structured superomniphobic membrane for treatment of low surface tension oily wastewater by membrane distillation

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Latest development in salt removal from solar-driven interfacial saline water evaporators: Advanced strategies and challenges

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Durable Superhydrophobic/Superoleophilic Graphene-based Foam for High-efficiency Oil Spill Cleanups and Recovery

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Evaluation of U.S. Manufacturing Subsectors at Risk of Physical Water Shortages

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Membrane-based separation for oily wastewater: A practical perspective

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A water lily–inspired hierarchical design for stable and efficient solar evaporation of high-salinity brine

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Robust Superhydrophobic Membrane for Membrane Distillation with Excellent Scaling Resistance

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Is water shortage risk decreased at the expense of deteriorating water quality in a large water supply reservoir?

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Predatory bacteria in combination with solar disinfection and solar photocatalysis for the treatment of rainwater

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Harvesting Water from Air: Using Anhydrous Salt with Sunlight

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Prewetting dichloromethane induced aqueous solution adhered on Cassie superhydrophobic substrates to fabricate efficient fog-harvesting materials inspired by Namib Desert beetles and mussels

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Nanoparticle-templated nanofiltration membranes for ultrahigh performance desalination

(2018) Zhenyi Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Hybrid Hydrogel with High Water Vapor Harvesting Capacity for Deployable Solar-Driven Atmospheric Water Generator

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How titanium dioxide cleans itself

(2018) Jeong Young Park   SCIENCE

Coatings super-repellent to ultralow surface tension liquids

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Engineering the Re-Entrant Hierarchy and Surface Energy of PDMS-PVDF Membrane for Membrane Distillation Using a Facile and Benign Microsphere Coating

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Large Scale Risks from Agricultural Pesticides in Small Streams

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Biomimetic Water-Collecting Fabric with Light-Induced Superhydrophilic Bumps

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High-efficiency water collection on biomimetic material with superwettable patterns

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Bioinspired Special Wettability Surfaces: From Fundamental Research to Water Harvesting Applications

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A facile strategy for the fabrication of a bioinspired hydrophilic–superhydrophobic patterned surface for highly efficient fog-harvesting

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Efficient Water Collection on Integrative Bioinspired Surfaces with Star-Shaped Wettability Patterns

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Bioinspired Conical Copper Wire with Gradient Wettability for Continuous and Efficient Fog Collection

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A Drop Pinned by a Designed Patch on a Tilted Superhydrophobic Surface: Mimicking Desert Beetle

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A multi-structural and multi-functional integrated fog collection system in cactus

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Candle Soot as a Template for a Transparent Robust Superamphiphobic Coating

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Mimicking the Stenocara BeetleDewetting of Drops from a Patterned Superhydrophobic Surface

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Surface Tension Transport of Prey by Feeding Shorebirds: The Capillary Ratchet

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