{"id":93308,"date":"2019-07-08T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/antigravity-water-transport-system-inspired-by-trees"},"modified":"2019-07-08T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T20:03:00","slug":"antigravity-water-transport-system-inspired-by-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/antigravity-water-transport-system-inspired-by-trees","title":{"rendered":"Antigravity water transport system inspired by trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/antigravity-water-transport-system-inspired-by-trees2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Efficiently moving water upward against gravity is a major feat of human engineering, yet one that trees have mastered for hundreds of millions of years. In a new study, researchers have designed a tree-inspired water transport system that uses capillary forces to drive dirty water upward through a hierarchically structured aerogel, where it can then be converted into steam by solar energy to produce fresh, clean water.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, led by Aiping Liu at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and Hao Bai at Zhejiang University, have published a paper on the new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water<\/a> transport and solar steam generation method in a recent issue of <i>ACS Nano<\/i>. In the future, efficient water transport methods have <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/potential+applications\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">potential applications<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water+purification\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water purification<\/a> and desalination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur preparation method is universal and can be industrialized,\u201d Liu told <i>Phys.org<\/i>. \u201cOur materials have excellent properties and good stability, and can be reused many times. This provides the possibility for large-scale desalination and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sewage+treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sewage treatment<\/a> in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efficiently moving water upward against gravity is a major feat of human engineering, yet one that trees have mastered for hundreds of millions of years. In a new study, researchers have designed a tree-inspired water transport system that uses capillary forces to drive dirty water upward through a hierarchically structured aerogel, where it can then [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93308","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}