New Material Sucks Water From the Air and Stores It | Singularity Hub
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“It doesn’t require any external energy, and it keeps water inside the forest,” said Sehmus Ozden, a graduate student in Pulickel Ajayan’s lab and the first author of the paper.
The nanotube forest is also reusable: You can wring it out like a washcloth. biomimicry, nanotechnology, technology, water, nanotubesYou could also think of the forest as a futuristic cup that gets the water for you and contains it until it’s needed.