High-Efficiency Fog Collector: Water Unidirectional Transport on Heterogeneous Rough Conical Wires.
writer：Ting Xu, Yucai Lin, Miaoxin Zhang, Weiwei Shi, and Yongmei Zheng*.
keywords：water harvesting
source：期刊
specific source：ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b05595
Issue time：2016年
An artificial periodic roughness-gradient conical copper wire (PCCW) can be fabricated by
inspiration from cactus spines and wet spider silks. PCCW can harvest fog on periodic points of the conical surface from air and transports the drops for a long distance without external force, which is attributed to dynamic as-released energy generated from drop deformation in drop coalescence, in addition to both gradients of geometric curve (inducing Laplace pressure) and periodic roughness (inducing surface energy difference). It is found that the ability of fog collection can be related to various tilted-angle wires, thus a fog collector with an array system of PCCWs is further designed to achieve a continuous process of efficient water collection. As a result, the effect of water collection on PCCWs is better than previous results. These findings are significant to develop and design materials with water collection and water transport for promising application in fogwater systems to ease the water crisis.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsnano.6b05595
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