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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Fog harvesting"”.
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Advanced Fog Harvesting Techniques
… as groundwater extraction, rainwater harvesting, desalination, and surface water diversion—often rely on significant infrastructure or existing water bodies. Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) has emerged as a promising and adaptable alternative that bypasses many of these limitations. …
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Fog Harvesting: Inspired by Spider Silk
… solution that has drawn lots of attention is fog harvesting. A commonly used fog collector is a vertical mesh, usually made of poly materials. Small water droplets can easily get pinned and quick evaporation is the major common challenge for vertical meshes. Coating the fog mesh with …
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Fog Harps: Elastocapillarity, Droplet Dynamics, and Optimization
Fog harvesting is emerging as a promising means to ease the water shortage crisis in arid regions of the world with ample fog. The current state-of-the-art for fog harvesting is mesh netting, which is accessible yet struggles from a dual constraint: a course mesh lets most microscopic fog droplets …
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Tree-Inspired Water Harvesting
… motivated to develop novel devices for water harvesting inspired by natural trees, and to understand their collection efficiency and working principles. We accomplished that with scale-model and large-scale fog harps, floating leaves, and synthetic trees. Fluids mechanics, physics, and …
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Dynamic wetting of soft materials and applications of dynamic tensiometry
… in drag reduction, oleophobic fabric design and fog harvesting is detailed. Goniometric techniques traditionally quantify two parameters, the advancing and receding contact angles, that are useful for characterizing the wetting properties of a solid surface; however, dynamic tensiometry can …
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Multi-stage adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting
Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is the capture and collection of water that is present in the air either as vapor or small water droplets. Adsorption-based AWH uses adsorbent materials to collect water vapor from the air, the advantage being that the adsorbents can be regenerated by low-grade …
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Designing liquid repellent surfaces for fabrics, feathers and fog
… of woven meshes is applied to optimize their fog collection ability. A business case for fog harvesting is developed and strategies to decrease asset and cash flow risks are proposed. The contributions presented here provide means to better characterize surfaces with complex topography, tune …
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Influencing contact-line behavior in dynamic wetting through thermocapillarity and surface topography
… designing substrates for applications such as fog harvesting and droplet-based microfluidics.
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Physico-chemical hydrodynamics of droplets on textured surfaces with engineered micro/nanostructures
… such as low-reflective, self-cleaning or anti-fogging glass, easy-cleaning robust inkjet printer heads, or efficient fog-harvesting surfaces. Developing such functional surfaces requires interdisciplinary considerations that have not been broadly explored and which integrate principles from …
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Flow and particle manipulation across flow regimes via shape modulation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01