{"id":242901,"date":"2026-08-19T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/meet-zainab-nathani-the-illinois-student-who-designed-a-material-that-can-pull-water-from-humid-air-using-sunlight"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:05:41","slug":"meet-zainab-nathani-the-illinois-student-who-designed-a-material-that-can-pull-water-from-humid-air-using-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/meet-zainab-nathani-the-illinois-student-who-designed-a-material-that-can-pull-water-from-humid-air-using-sunlight","title":{"rendered":"Meet Zainab Nathani, the Illinois student who designed a material that can pull water from humid air using sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-zainab-nathani-the-illinois-student-who-designed-a-material-that-can-pull-water-from-humid-air-using-sunlight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zainab Nathani, a high school junior from Niles, Illinois, has designed a material that can pull drinkable water straight out of humid air, powered entirely by sunlight. Studying at Niles Township West High School, she built her project around emulsion-templated composite biogels, porous, bio-based structures engineered to trap moisture from the atmosphere and release it as liquid water once warmed by natural sunlight, with no electricity or added energy required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zainab Nathani, a high school junior from Niles, Illinois, has designed a material that can pull drinkable water straight out of humid air, powered entirely by sunlight. Studying at Niles Township West High School, she built her project around emulsion-templated composite biogels, porous, bio-based structures engineered to trap moisture from the atmosphere and release it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242901","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}