abstract the limitation of water sources in most places all over the world, especially in arid and semi-arid lands is an important issue for those who live in these areas. many governments have dedicated their efforts toward finding new water resources to obtain water. fog and cap clouds harvesting are one of the candidate methods to produce pure water. many countries including chile, peru, ecu...

Harvesting micro-droplets from fog is a promising method for solving global freshwater crisis. Different types of fog collectors have been extensively reported during the last decade. The improvement of fog collection can be attributed to the immediate transportation of harvested water, the effective regeneration of the fog gathering surface, etc. Through learning from the nature's strategy for...

Fog represents a large untapped source of potable water, especially in arid climates. Numerous plants and animals use textural and chemical features on their surfaces to harvest this precious resource. In this work, we investigate the influence of the surface wettability characteristics, length scale, and weave density on the fog-harvesting capability of woven meshes. We develop a combined hydr...

Fog Harvesting Devices Freshwater scarcity is increasingly becoming a global systemic risk. In article number 2200359, Tianxue Zhu, Shaohai Fu, Yuekun Lai, and co-workers summarize the innovative fabrication strategies fundamental fog harvesting mechanism of bioinspired surfaces with special wettability that can pioneer promising development direction on construction devices for solving water c...

An outdoor earth science museum exhibit was designed for the Exploration Station in Grover Beach, California, and will use the harvesting methods of fog as a clean water resource to educate children. The design of the exhibit has two parts: a 1 m x 1 m static Standard Fog collector for long term fog collection which rises 2 m off the ground, and a mobile six-panel display consisting of six diff...

Access to clean water is a global challenge, and fog collectors are promising solution. Polycarbonate (PC) fibers have been used in but with limited efficiency. In this study, we show that controlling voltage polarity humidity during the electrospinning of PC improves their surface properties for collection capability. We experimentally measured effect both morphology chemistry fiber on potenti...