Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Bioinspired asymmetric amphiphilic surface for triboelectric enhanced efficient water harvesting

  • Song Zhang,
  • Mingchao Chi,
  • Jilong Mo,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Yanhua Liu,
  • Qiu Fu,
  • Jinlong Wang,
  • Bin Luo,
  • Ying Qin,
  • Shuangfei Wang,
  • Shuangxi Nie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31987-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The effective acquisition of clean water from atmospheric water offers a potential sustainable solution for increasing global water shortages. Here, authors developed a bioinspired asymmetric amphiphilic surface incorporating self-driven triboelectric adsorption to obtain clean water.