Fog harvesting devices inspired from single to multiple creatures: current progress and future perspective

Z Yu, T Zhu, J Zhang, M Ge, S Fu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing demand for clean water driven by the rapid growth of the population and the
pollution of water necessitates the development of direct and rapid water harvesting …

Recent advances in femtosecond laser-structured Janus membranes with asymmetric surface wettability

Z Wu, K Yin, J Wu, Z Zhu, JA Duan, J He - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Janus wettability membranes have received much attention because of their asymmetric
surface wettability. On the basis of this distinctiveness from traditional symmetrical …

Super‐fast fog collector based on self‐driven jet of mini fog droplets

D Yan, Y Chen, J Liu, J Song - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater scarcity crisis threatens human life and economic security. Collecting water from
the fog seems to be an effective method to defuse this crisis. Nonetheless, the existing fog …

Crystalline Porous Organic Salt for Ultrarapid Adsorption/Desorption‐Based Atmospheric Water Harvesting by Dual Hydrogen Bond System

S Zhang, J Fu, S Das, K Ye, W Zhu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the porous sorbent‐assisted atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) method
has emerged as an effective approach for solving water crises without geographical …

Efficient Fabrication of Micro/Nanostructured Polyethylene/Carbon Nanotubes Foam with Robust Superhydrophobicity, Excellent Photothermality, and Sufficient …

H Xie, Y Du, W Zhou, W Xu, C Zhang, R Niu, T Wu… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of fog collection and solar‐driven evaporation has great significance in
addressing the challenge of the global freshwater crisis. Herein, a micro/nanostructured …

Advances in atmospheric water generation technologies

G Raveesh, R Goyal, SK Tyagi - Energy Conversion and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
The availability of freshwater is persistently changing, and the current trends indicate that it
is declining very rapidly, both quantitatively and qualitatively around the globe. Therefore …

Nature-inspired surface for simultaneously harvesting water and triboelectric energy from ambient humidity using polymer brush coatings

A Rajabi-Abhari, M Soltani, K Golovin, N Yan - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Atmospheric water harvesting provides a promising, sustainable solution for alleviating the
ever-growing water and energy crisis. Here, inspired by the Namib desert beetle, a …

Combinational biomimetic microfibers for high-efficiency water collection

M Zhang, Z Zheng, Y Zhu, Z Zhu, T Si, RX Xu - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Collecting water from fog by microscale fibrous materials is a promising solution to the
global water scarcity crisis. However, the previously designed fog harvesting microfibers …

3D-printing-assisted fabrication of hierarchically structured biomimetic surfaces with dual-wettability for water harvesting

Y Choi, K Baek, H So - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Freshwater acquisition methods under various environments are required because water
scarcity has intensified worldwide. Furthermore, as water is an essential resource for …

China's sponge cities alleviate urban flooding and water shortage: a review

J Han, C Wang, S Deng, E Lichtfouse - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2023 - Springer
About one tenth of humans are impacted by water shortages around the globe. Water
resilience is worsening under climate change because intensifying weather extremes …