Natural creatures use their surface structures to control directional liquid dynamics for
survival. Learning from nature, artificial superwetting materials have triggered technological …

Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) technology is an emerging sustainable development
strategy to deal with global water scarcity. To better understand the current state of AWH …

The effective acquisition of clean water from atmospheric water offers a potential sustainable
solution for increasing global water and energy shortages. In this study, an asymmetric …

Droplet manipulations are fundamental to numerous applications, such as water collection,
medical diagnostics, and drug delivery. Structure-based liquid operations have been widely …

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 …

Water is the cradle of life, but the scarcity of freshwater imposed by the ever-increasing
population and pollution threatens human survival. Harvesting fresh water from the …

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 …

Solar steam water purification and fog collection are two independent processes that could
enable abundant fresh water generation. We developed a hydrogel membrane that contains …

Obtaining fresh water from the atmosphere by fog collectors is a promising way to meet the
challenge of the water crisis. Bioinspired fog collectors have attracted widespread attention …

As the most common but indispensable matter to humankind, water usually stays in a
macroscopically electric neutral state. Due to its inherent molecular polarity, however, water …