Rice University lab modifies arrays to capture, hold water
for later use
If you don’t want to die of thirst in the desert, be like
the beetle. Or have a nanotube cup handy.
New research by scientists at Rice University demonstrated
that forests of carbon nanotubes can be made to harvest water molecules from
arid desert air and store them for future use.
The invention they call a “hygroscopic scaffold” is detailed
in a new paper in the American Chemical Society journal Applied Materials and
Interfaces.