ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
High-yield atmospheric water capture via bioinspired material segregation.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Atmospheric Water Harvesting Through Polymer Hydrogel Sorbents: Materials Chemistry, Design Strategies, and Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Hydrogels for Climate Change Mitigation: Applications in Water Harvesting, Passive Cooling, and Environmental Solutions.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- When the Household is the Utility: Ensuring Equitable Water Service for Rural US Communities Served by Decentralized Water Systems.ACS ES&T water · 2025Review
- High-yield atmospheric water capture via bioinspired material segregation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
Transforming atmospheric water vapor into liquid form can be a way to supply water to arid regions for uses such as drinking water, thermal management, and hydrogen generation. Many current methods rely on solid sorbents that cycle between capture and release at slow rates. We envision a radically different approach where water is transformed and directly captured into a liquid salt solution that is suitable for subsequent distillation or other processing using existing methods. In contrast to other methods utilizing hydrogels as sorbents, we do not store water within hydrogels-we use them as a transport medium. Inspired by nature, we capture atmospheric water through a hydrogel membrane "skin" at an extraordinarily high rate of 5.50 kgm[Formula: see text]d[Formula: see text] at a low humidity of 35%. and up to 16.9 kgm[Formula: see text]d[Formula: see text] at higher humidities. For a drinking-water application, calculated performance of a hypothetical one-square-meter device shows that water could be supplied to two to three people in arid environments. This work is a significant step toward providing new resources and possibilities to water-scarce regions.
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