Special fog harvesting mode on bioinspired hydrophilic dual-thread spider silk fiber

J Huan, M Chen, Y Hou, Y Zheng - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Normal bioinspired spider silk fibers (BSSFs) show effective fog collection abilities but are
weak in the rapid transport of captured droplets, which could potentially hinder the further …

Bionic collection system for fog-dew harvesting inspired from desert beetle

Y Fu, L Wu, S Ai, Z Guo, W Liu - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Obtaining clean water resources from the air is an important method to solve the water
shortage problem in arid and semi-arid areas. Improving the efficiency of material water …

Biomimetic Leaf-Shaped Wedge Structure with Mixed Wettability for Fog Harvesting

M Li, S Xie, G Tian, G Chen, Z Guo - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Water scarcity is a pressing issue in arid and semi-arid regions, making fog harvesting a
promising method for water collection. However, enhancing the rate of fog harvesting …

[HTML][HTML] Smart materials and Micro/Nano architectonics for water harvesting: From fundamental mechanism to advanced application

X Wang, H Wei, N Luo, H Luo, X Zhou, B Qin… - Composites Part A …, 2024 - Elsevier
The shortage of water resources is a severe challenge that the world faces in the 21st
century. By imitating the water harvesting behavior of organisms to obtain water from the …

Biomimetic 3D efficient fog harvester by synergistic wettability effect

Y Fu, S Ai, Z Guo, W Liu - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
By collecting water in the air, it is an important way to solve the problem of water shortage in
arid and semi-arid areas. Improving the efficiency of fog harvesting is still a great challenge …

Origami-like 3D Fog Water Harvestor with Hybrid Wettability for Efficient Fog Harvesting

Z Peng, Y Fu, Z Guo - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023 - ACS Publications
Collecting water in fog has also become a breakthrough to solve the hidden danger of water
shortage in some arid areas. The three-dimensional (3D) structure fog collection material …

MOF-801 enabled rapid-cycling atmospheric water harvester with vertically aligned photothermal channel

M Zhu, G He, Z Wang, J Chen, X Fu, H Yang… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH) with metal–organic frameworks
(MOFs) offer a promising solution to freshwater scarcity in arid regions. However, given the …

High-effective fog collection on metal surfaces by temperature gradients

Y Fu, L Li, S Ai, Z Guo, W Liu - Materials Today Sustainability, 2024 - Elsevier
The acquisition of global freshwater resources has always been the direction of people's
efforts. At present, metal materials based on special wettability and special structure have …

Efficient Fog-Harvesting Origami Fan

R Zhang, S Li, C Zhan, Z Zhang… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Fog harvesting represents a promising strategy to address the global freshwater shortage.
To enhance the water collection efficiency, diverse geometric structures that can effectively …

Magnetically Driven Cactus Spinelike Superhydrophobic Fe3O4 Vertical Array for High-Performance Fog Harvesting

M Zhu, X Zhang, J Chen, X Fu, H Yang, D Chen, P Lyu… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cactus spinelike materials have attracted much attention due to high fog harvesting
efficiency, but great challenges in structure fabrication and structural controllability still …