{"id":244949,"date":"2026-10-06T01:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/visible-light-does-not-speed-up-water-evaporation-rigorous-experiments-suggest"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:40:38","slug":"visible-light-does-not-speed-up-water-evaporation-rigorous-experiments-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/visible-light-does-not-speed-up-water-evaporation-rigorous-experiments-suggest","title":{"rendered":"Visible light does not speed up water evaporation, rigorous experiments suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/visible-light-does-not-speed-up-water-evaporation-rigorous-experiments-suggest2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent experiments involving hydrogels and water droplets, researchers have proposed that exposure to visible light could make water evaporate faster without heating it. However, direct evidence that light acts on water itself has proven elusive.<\/p>\n<p>Through new research <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2615377123\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>PNAS<\/i>, Mischa Bonn and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, have put the idea through a rigorous series of tests. They found that visible light has no measurable effect on the evaporation of pure water\u2014hinting at an alternative influence on the evaporation rate that has yet to be discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent experiments involving hydrogels and water droplets, researchers have proposed that exposure to visible light could make water evaporate faster without heating it. However, direct evidence that light acts on water itself has proven elusive. Through new research published in PNAS, Mischa Bonn and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244949","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}