Kirigami fog nets: how strips improve water collection
Abstract As scarcity of water is expected to intensify with global warming, unconventional water sources such as advective fogs may become essential. In numerous arid regions, nets are used to harvest such water droplets. However, many current fog nets are either not durable or expensive, and have p...
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| author | Pierre-Brice Bintein Axel Cornu Floriane Weyer Nicolas De Coster Nicolas Vandewalle Denis Terwagne |
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| description | Abstract As scarcity of water is expected to intensify with global warming, unconventional water sources such as advective fogs may become essential. In numerous arid regions, nets are used to harvest such water droplets. However, many current fog nets are either not durable or expensive, and have poor performances for short time or low intensity fog events. With a dedicated test bench, we show here that a low-cost net with kirigami design offers a higher and faster fog collecting ability than the usual fibers nets. This kirigami fog net consists of a continuous network of strips where water quickly forms a stable film, accounting for its superior capture efficiency. We rationalize this mechanism with a simplified structure composed of disconnected strips whose optimization paves the way to the shaping of original fog nets such as the kirigami one. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c43c03fba7d4924b8eff5a0a3e9aabe2023-07-23T11:05:24ZengNature Portfolionpj Clean Water2059-70372023-07-01611710.1038/s41545-023-00266-6Kirigami fog nets: how strips improve water collectionPierre-Brice Bintein0Axel Cornu1Floriane Weyer2Nicolas De Coster3Nicolas Vandewalle4Denis Terwagne5Frugal Lab, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)Frugal Lab, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)GRASP, Faculté des Sciences, University of Liège (ULiège)Fab Lab ULB, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)GRASP, Faculté des Sciences, University of Liège (ULiège)Frugal Lab, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)Abstract As scarcity of water is expected to intensify with global warming, unconventional water sources such as advective fogs may become essential. In numerous arid regions, nets are used to harvest such water droplets. However, many current fog nets are either not durable or expensive, and have poor performances for short time or low intensity fog events. With a dedicated test bench, we show here that a low-cost net with kirigami design offers a higher and faster fog collecting ability than the usual fibers nets. This kirigami fog net consists of a continuous network of strips where water quickly forms a stable film, accounting for its superior capture efficiency. We rationalize this mechanism with a simplified structure composed of disconnected strips whose optimization paves the way to the shaping of original fog nets such as the kirigami one.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-023-00266-6 |
| spellingShingle | Pierre-Brice Bintein Axel Cornu Floriane Weyer Nicolas De Coster Nicolas Vandewalle Denis Terwagne Kirigami fog nets: how strips improve water collection npj Clean Water |
| title | Kirigami fog nets: how strips improve water collection |
| title_full | Kirigami fog nets: how strips improve water collection |
| title_fullStr | Kirigami fog nets: how strips improve water collection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Kirigami fog nets: how strips improve water collection |
| title_short | Kirigami fog nets: how strips improve water collection |
| title_sort | kirigami fog nets how strips improve water collection |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-023-00266-6 |
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