An Efficient Fog Collector Achieved by Optimal Hierarchical Surface Patterns and Wetting Gradient
Abstract With the decrease in fresh water resources, fog collection has become a promising way to obtain fresh water. This paper presents an efficient fog collector that combines wettability and spokes geometry. Water droplets move along a fixed route on the mist collector and can easily overcome th...
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| author | Xiaobo Wang Zhiguang Guo Weimin Liu |
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| description | Abstract With the decrease in fresh water resources, fog collection has become a promising way to obtain fresh water. This paper presents an efficient fog collector that combines wettability and spokes geometry. Water droplets move along a fixed route on the mist collector and can easily overcome the pinning effect at the end of the structure to detach from the surface and then be collected. Its fog collecting efficiency can be 1.82 times that of a planar zinc sheet, which provides a new idea for the design of subsequent fog collectors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-059496e335964beea43ad038f1ce0de22024-09-05T08:46:07ZengWiley-VCHAdvanced Materials Interfaces2196-73502023-03-01108n/an/a10.1002/admi.202202123An Efficient Fog Collector Achieved by Optimal Hierarchical Surface Patterns and Wetting GradientXiaobo Wang0Zhiguang Guo1Weimin Liu2Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials Hubei University Wuhan 430062 P. R. ChinaMinistry of Education Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials Hubei University Wuhan 430062 P. R. ChinaState Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Lanzhou 730000 P. R. ChinaAbstract With the decrease in fresh water resources, fog collection has become a promising way to obtain fresh water. This paper presents an efficient fog collector that combines wettability and spokes geometry. Water droplets move along a fixed route on the mist collector and can easily overcome the pinning effect at the end of the structure to detach from the surface and then be collected. Its fog collecting efficiency can be 1.82 times that of a planar zinc sheet, which provides a new idea for the design of subsequent fog collectors.https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202202123fog collectorssurfacepatternswettability |
| spellingShingle | Xiaobo Wang Zhiguang Guo Weimin Liu An Efficient Fog Collector Achieved by Optimal Hierarchical Surface Patterns and Wetting Gradient Advanced Materials Interfaces fog collectors surface patterns wettability |
| title | An Efficient Fog Collector Achieved by Optimal Hierarchical Surface Patterns and Wetting Gradient |
| title_full | An Efficient Fog Collector Achieved by Optimal Hierarchical Surface Patterns and Wetting Gradient |
| title_fullStr | An Efficient Fog Collector Achieved by Optimal Hierarchical Surface Patterns and Wetting Gradient |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Efficient Fog Collector Achieved by Optimal Hierarchical Surface Patterns and Wetting Gradient |
| title_short | An Efficient Fog Collector Achieved by Optimal Hierarchical Surface Patterns and Wetting Gradient |
| title_sort | efficient fog collector achieved by optimal hierarchical surface patterns and wetting gradient |
| topic | fog collectors surface patterns wettability |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202202123 |
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