Bai Haoyu, Zhao Tianhong, Cao Moyuan
School of materials science and engineering, Smart sensing interdisciplinary science center, Nankai university, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China.
Tianjin key laboratory of metal and molecule-based material chemistry, Nankai university, Tianjin 300192, P. R. China.
Chem Soc Rev. 2025 Feb 17;54(4):1733-1784. doi: 10.1039/d4cs01073f.
The inspirations from nature always enlighten us to develop advanced science and technology. To survive in complicated and harsh environments, plants and animals have evolved remarkable capabilities to control fluid transfer sophisticated designs such as wettability contrast, oriented micro-/nano-structures, and geometry gradients. Based on the bioinspired structures, the on-surface fluid manipulation exhibits spontaneous, continuous, smart, and integrated performances, which can promote the applications in the fields of heat transfer, microfluidics, heterogeneous catalysis, water harvesting, Although fluid manipulating interfaces (FMIs) have provided plenty of ideas to optimize the current systems, a comprehensive review of history, classification, fabrication, and integration focusing on their interfacial chemistry and asymmetric structure is highly required. In this review, we systematically introduce development and highlight the state-of-the-art progress of bioinspired FMIs. Firstly, the biological prototype and development timeline are presented, and the underlying mechanism of on-surface fluid control on versatile structures is analyzed. Secondly, the definition and classification of FMIs as well as the strategy for controlling fluid/interface interaction are discussed. Thirdly, emergent applications of FMIs in practical scenarios including fog/vapor collection, fluid diodes, interfacial catalysis, are presented. Furthermore, the challenges and prospects of interfacial liquid manipulation are concluded. We envision that this review should provide guidance for the incorporation of FMIs into suitable situations, which enlightens interdisciplinary research and practical applications in the fields of interface chemistry, materials design, bionic science, fluid dynamics,
来自大自然的灵感总是启发我们去发展先进的科学技术。为了在复杂和恶劣的环境中生存，植物和动物已经进化出了卓越的能力来控制流体传输，具有诸如润湿性对比、定向微/纳米结构和几何梯度等复杂设计。基于这些受生物启发的结构，表面流体操控展现出自发、连续、智能和集成的性能，这可以促进在传热、微流体、多相催化、水收集等领域的应用。尽管流体操控界面（FMIs）为优化当前系统提供了诸多思路，但迫切需要一篇全面回顾其历史、分类、制造以及集成，并聚焦于其界面化学和不对称结构的综述。在这篇综述中，我们系统地介绍了受生物启发的FMIs的发展，并突出了其最新进展。首先，展示了生物原型和发展时间表，并分析了在多种结构上进行表面流体控制的潜在机制。其次，讨论了FMIs的定义和分类以及控制流体/界面相互作用的策略。第三，介绍了FMIs在实际场景中的新兴应用，包括雾/蒸汽收集、流体二极管、界面催化等。此外，总结了界面液体操控面临的挑战和前景。我们设想这篇综述应为将FMIs纳入合适的情境提供指导，从而启发界面化学、材料设计、仿生科学、流体动力学等领域的跨学科研究和实际应用。
