{"id":213531,"date":"2025-05-08T02:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/smart-spongy-device-captures-water-from-thin-air"},"modified":"2025-05-08T02:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:08:19","slug":"smart-spongy-device-captures-water-from-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/smart-spongy-device-captures-water-from-thin-air","title":{"rendered":"Smart spongy device captures water from thin air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-spongy-device-captures-water-from-thin-air.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers from Australia and China have invented a sponge-like device that captures water from thin air and then releases it in a cup using the sun\u2019s energy, even in low humidity where other technologies such as fog harvesting and radiative cooling have struggled.<\/p>\n<p>The water-from-air device remained effective across a broad range of humidity levels (30\u201390%) and temperatures (5\u201355 degrees Celsius).<\/p>\n<p>Senior researcher Dr. Derek Hao, from RMIT University in Melbourne, said the invention relied on refined balsa wood\u2019s naturally spongy structure, modified to absorb water from the atmosphere and release it on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers from Australia and China have invented a sponge-like device that captures water from thin air and then releases it in a cup using the sun\u2019s energy, even in low humidity where other technologies such as fog harvesting and radiative cooling have struggled. The water-from-air device remained effective across a broad range of humidity levels [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}