Publications

Although sensor technologies have allowed us to outperform the human senses of sight, hearing, and touch, the development of artificial noses is significantly behind their biological counterparts. This largely stems from the sophistication of natural...

Growth constitutes a powerful method to post-modulate materials' structures and functions without compromising their mechanical performance for sustainable use, but the process is irreversible. To address this issue, we here report a growing-degrowing...

Liquid-liquid heat exchangers that operate in marine environments are susceptible to biofouling, which decreases the overall heat exchange between hot and cold liquids by increasing the conduction resistance. Recently, micro/nanostructured oil-impregnated...

Implantable tubes, shunts, and other medical conduits are crucial for treating a wide range of conditions from ears and eyes to brain and liver but often impose serious risks of device infection, obstruction, migration, unreliable function, and tissue...

Summary One look at the scene after a winter storm reveals the magnitude of the challenge presented by surface icing: icing is a nearly generic property of solid surfaces. Rather than approaching the problem strictly in terms of modifying solid properties...

Various forms of ecological monitoring and disease diagnosis rely upon the detection of amphiphiles, including lipids, lipopolysaccharides, and lipoproteins, at ultralow concentrations in small droplets. Although assays based on droplets' wettability...

We report dynamical restructuring effects in free-standing Au0.75Pd0.25 nanoparticles occurring in gaseous environments at elevated temperatures. The freshly prepared sample was found to have a core–shell structure with a Pd-rich phase on the surface. The...

Dilute Pd-in-Au alloys are valuable materials for selectively hydrogenating alkynes and isomerizing alkenes. By diluting Pd in a Au host, the selectivity toward semihydrogenated alkene isomers can be significantly enhanced and the unfavorable...

Surfaces with tunable microscale textures are vital in a large variety of technological applications, including heat transfer, antifouling and adhesion. To facilitate such broad-scale use, there is a need to create surfaces that undergo reconfigurable...

For many decades, silicone elastomers with oil incorporated have served as fouling-release coating for marine applications. In a comprehensive study involving a series of laboratory-based marine fouling assays and extensive global field studies of up to 2...

ConspectusInverse opals (IOs) are highly interconnected three-dimensional macroporous structures with applications in a variety of disciplines from optics to catalysis. For instance, when the pore size is on the scale of the wavelength of visible light...