Bio‐inspired fog harvesting meshes: a review

BS Kennedy, JB Boreyko - Advanced Functional Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater scarcity has become a critical global challenge affecting some of the most
vulnerable populations. In response, significant effort has focused on ways to increase …

Recent advances in atmosphere water harvesting: Design principle, materials, devices, and applications

B Wang, X Zhou, Z Guo, W Liu - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Atmosphere water harvest offers a creative and straightforward way to tackle the global-
range freshwater shortage, especially in remote areas and arid deserts. Inspired by the …

Slippery lubricant‐infused surfaces: properties and emerging applications

J Li, E Ueda, D Paulssen… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bioinspired lubricant‐infused surfaces exhibit various unique properties attributed to their
liquid‐like and molecularly smooth nature. Excellent liquid repellency and “slippery” …

Aerodynamics-assisted, efficient and scalable kirigami fog collectors

J Li, R Ran, H Wang, Y Wang, Y Chen, S Niu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
To address the global water shortage crisis, one of the promising solutions is to collect
freshwater from the environmental resources such as fog. However, the efficiency of …

Fog harvesting with harps

W Shi, MJ Anderson, JB Tulkoff… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Fog harvesting is a useful technique for obtaining fresh water in arid climates. The wire
meshes currently utilized for fog harvesting suffer from dual constraints: coarse meshes …

A quadruple-biomimetic surface for spontaneous and efficient fog harvesting

R Feng, F Song, C Xu, XL Wang, YZ Wang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Rational manipulation of liquid motion on functional surfaces are of high interest for the
fabrication of advanced water-harvest devices. Great efforts have dedicated to the …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of surface wettability on the fog and dew moisture harvesting performance on tubular surfaces

D Seo, J Lee, C Lee, Y Nam - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The efficient water harvesting from air-laden moisture has been a subject of great interest to
address world-wide water shortage issues. Recently, it has been shown that tailoring …

What are the design principles, from the choice of lubricants and structures to the preparation method, for a stable slippery lubricant-infused porous surface?

X Chen, G Wen, Z Guo - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite decades of research, superhydrophobic surfaces still rely on a stable air layer that is
plagued with problems, such as poor pressure stability, the inability to self-heal, and the …

3D‐printed cactus‐inspired spine structures for highly efficient water collection

X Li, Y Yang, L Liu, Y Chen, M Chu… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The inherent fog collection mechanism used by the cactus gives inspirations for constructing
energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly water collection devices. However, the related …

Fog collection behavior of bionic surface and large fog collector: A review

H Yue, Q Zeng, J Huang, Z Guo, W Liu - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water shortages are currently becoming more and more serious due to complicated factors
such as the development of the economy, environmental pollution, and climate deterioration …