Affiliation:
1. Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Heavy Machinery Taiyuan University of Science and Technology Taiyuan 030024 China
2. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology Taiyuan University of Science and Technology Taiyuan 030024 China
3. State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics Institute of Mechanics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
4. Paris Curie Engineer School Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 China
Abstract
AbstractWith the rapid growth of the population and the development of the economy, the shortage of freshwater resources has become a worldwide problem. Utilizing fog harvesting provides a practical solution to relieve the water shortage problem for residents in arid regions. This review summarizes the typical fog harvesting phenomena in nature in detail, the construction methods, fog harvesting performance, and the action mechanism of different biomimetic micro‐nano structures from one‐dimensional (1D), two‐dimensional (2D), and three‐dimensional (3D) perspectives. The influence of surface micro‐nano structure and wettability on water harvesting performance is analyzed. Finally, the challenges and future development directions of multi‐scale micro‐nano surface controllable water harvesting technology are summarized and prospected, which provides a good idea for the design of bioinspired micro‐nanomaterials and promotes water harvesting from scientific research to practical application.
Funder
Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province