Congratulations to Moxiao Li and Hao Liu for the NSF fellowship for NSF International Summer School on Biocomplexity, Biodesign and Bioinnovation. The summer school was held in a beautiful Aegean City, Izmir, Turkey. Great achievement for BEBC!

Moxiao Li gave an excellent talk. The wetting of plant cell epidermis has inspired novel superhydrophobic coatings through the lotus effect, and hydrophobic yet water-adsorptive coatings through the rose petal effect. She demonstrated that this omniphilic behavior was useful for transferring small volumes of both oil and water, for controlling microscale chemical reactions, and for separating oil from water with subsequent liquid release.

The topic for Hao Liu’s lecture was “Smart amphibious soft robots: magnetically actuated liquid metal”. His talk was really exciting too.