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ArticleNature communications2025

High-efficiency atmospheric water harvesting enabled by ultrasonic extraction.

Ikra Iftekhar Shuvo, Carlos D Díaz-Marín, Marvin Christen, Michael Lherbette, Christopher Liem, Svetlana V Boriskina

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Ikra Iftekhar ShuvoMedia Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Carlos D Díaz-MarínDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1890-4863
Marvin ChristenSmarAct Metrology GmbH & Co. KG, Oldenburg, Germany.
Michael LherbetteSmarAct Metrology GmbH & Co. KG, Oldenburg, Germany.
Christopher LiemDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Svetlana V BoriskinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. sborisk@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6798-8082

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atmospheric water harvesting technology, which extracts moisture from ambient air to generate water, is a promising strategy to realize decentralized water production. However, the prohibitively high energy consumption of heat-induced evaporation process of water extraction hinders the technology deployment. Here we demonstrate that vibrational mechanical actuation can be used instead of heat to extract water from moisture harvesting materials, offering about forty-five-fold increase in the extraction energy efficiency. We report the energy consumption for water extraction below the enthalpy of water evaporation, thus breaking the thermal limit of the energy efficiency inherent to the state-of-the-art thermal evaporation and making atmospheric water harvesting technology economically feasible for adoption on scale.

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PMCPMC12627773

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