Bioinspired Superwettable Materials from Design, Fabrication to Application

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28 April 2023

Editorial: Bioinspired superwettable materials from design, fabrication to application

Jingxin Meng

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Hongliang Liu

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Jun-Bing Fan

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Pengchao Zhang

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Feilong Zhang

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Jingxin Meng

Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Hongliang Liu

Yantai University

Jun-Bing Fan

Southern Medical University

Pengchao Zhang

Wuhan University of Technology

Tailin Xu

Shenzhen University

Feilong Zhang

Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

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Superwetting materials have been exhibiting excellent application in chemical reactions, pollutant removal, and materials fabrication, which rely on the combination of multiscale structures and surface chemical compositions. Studying natural biological organisms with superwettability and revealing the underlying mechanisms is the most effective way to design and fabricate superwettable materials and extend their potential applications. Over the past 20 years, biological organisms with superhydrophobic surfaces, superhydrophilic surfaces, directional liquid-transfer surfaces, and multifunctional surfaces combining superwettability with adhesion or optical properties have been discovered and given great inspirations to superwetting materials. This is only the beginning, and many more unique organisms are to be found, more superwetting materials are to be fabricated, and more applications are to be extended.

During the past two decades, bioinspired materials with superwettability have become a rapidly growing and enormously promising field. The main goal of this Research Topic is to collect high-quality research on bioinspired materials with superwettability for solving real-life scientific problems. Moreover, this Research Topic will emphasize recent advances in the applications of bioinspired materials with superwettability in various fields such as controllable fabrication of functional materials, anti-biofouling, biosensing and bioseparation, etc.

The scope of this Research Topic ranges from new methods and strategies for designing and fabricating novel bioinspired materials with superwettability to specific applications such as antifouling, biosensing, bioseparation, specific adhesion. The types of collected manuscripts consist of Original Research, Review, and Perspective articles.

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Jingxin Meng

Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Hongliang Liu

Yantai University

Jun-Bing Fan

Southern Medical University

Pengchao Zhang

Wuhan University of Technology

Tailin Xu

Shenzhen University

Feilong Zhang

Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Biomaterials, Bionics and Biomimetics

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Bionics and Biomimetics

Frontiers in Materials

Biomaterials

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Biomaterials

Frontiers in Medical Technology

Bionics and Biomimetics

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