TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent advances in atmosphere water harvesting
T2 - Design principle, materials, devices, and applications
AU - Wang, Ben
AU - Zhou, Xuechang
AU - Guo, Zhiguang
AU - Liu, Weimin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - 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 natural species, significant progress has been made to developing water harvesting materials and devices through the rational design of the structure and composition. In this review, we address mainly three questions. What is the design principle of a water harvesting material? How to improve the water collection efficiency of a material in an arid region? How to transform the materials into high-efficient water harvesting systems/devices? With these questions, we present a systematic interpretation of in-air water harvesting, from the materials to the devices, aiming to help find ever-advanced water harvesting systems. We summarize the important achievements towards their applications in the sustainable water supply at water-deficient regions, and for the agricultural irrigation system. The challenges and barriers that retard their applications and future research orientations in this field are also discussed.
AB - 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 natural species, significant progress has been made to developing water harvesting materials and devices through the rational design of the structure and composition. In this review, we address mainly three questions. What is the design principle of a water harvesting material? How to improve the water collection efficiency of a material in an arid region? How to transform the materials into high-efficient water harvesting systems/devices? With these questions, we present a systematic interpretation of in-air water harvesting, from the materials to the devices, aiming to help find ever-advanced water harvesting systems. We summarize the important achievements towards their applications in the sustainable water supply at water-deficient regions, and for the agricultural irrigation system. The challenges and barriers that retard their applications and future research orientations in this field are also discussed.
KW - Directional transportation
KW - Hydrogel
KW - Liquid-infused slippery surface
KW - Water harvesting
KW - Wetting gradient
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114126359&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.nantod.2021.101283
DO - 10.1016/j.nantod.2021.101283
M3 - 文献综述
AN - SCOPUS:85114126359
SN - 1748-0132
VL - 40
JO - Nano Today
JF - Nano Today
M1 - 101283
ER -