Recent advance of adsorbent materials for indoor dehumidification

Y Chao, C Wang, Z Zhou, X Yang, Y Du, Y Liang… - Separation and …, 2024 - Elsevier
As the rise of global climate warming and carbon dioxide emissions from air conditioning
dehumidification, the impact of high indoor humidity on human health and building safety …

Bioinspired construction of petal-like regenerated PVDF/cellulose fibers for efficient fog harvesting

K Yang, C Duan, Z Meng, Y Liu, Y Liu, Z Xie, Y Ni - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2024 - Elsevier
Water collection from atmospheric fog was deemed to be an efficient and sustainable
strategy to defuse the freshwater scarcity crisis. Fog harvesting and trapping fibers …

[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 …

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 …

Facile preparation of wood-based Janus membrane by hydrothermal ZnO with photoregulated wettability

J Tang, H Zhang, C Jiang, W Wu, C Gan - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
This study developed a functional Janus wood (JW) membrane with designed wettability
gradient through simple modification of balsa wood and evaluated its performance in liquid …

Improving zirconia ceramics grinding surface integrity through innovative laser bionic surface texturing

X Zhang, T He, D Wen, T Li, X Chen, C Li, Y Ding… - Ceramics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Zirconia ceramics have become an important material for the manufacture of key
components in aerospace, military, energy, and other fields due to their excellent …

Water collection through a directional leaf vein pattern by fast laser marker ablation of stainless-steel

H Cui, X Fang, X Qi, C Liu, Y Wang, X Chen… - Surfaces and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Inspired by the natural water harvesting mechanisms of desert beetles, cactus thorns, and
leaf veins, we designed a heterogeneous wettability surface with superhydrophilic pattern …

On the spreading behavior of a droplet on a circular cylinder using the lattice Boltzmann method

F Yang, H Jin, M Dai - Chinese Physics B, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of a droplet spreading on a circular cylinder under gravity was carried out using
the pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann high-density ratios multiphase model with a non …

Efficient Fog-Harvesting Origami Fan

Z Guo, R Zhang, S Li, Z Zhang - Zhenya, Efficient Fog-Harvesting … - papers.ssrn.com
Fog harvesting is a powerful solution to the freshwater crisis. To enable efficient water
collectors, a variety of geometric driving structures are needed. Therefore, we provide a new …