A new nano-coating that can pull water out of the air might allow us to harvest water where there seems to be none, like the moisture farms in Star Wars. The coating is based on naturally occurring moisture-gathering mechanisms, such as the spines of a cactus and the bumpy shell of a desert beetle. Researchers at Harvard University have modeled their new material on the shell of the Namib desert beetle, but they’ve also taken…
This nano material sucks water from thin air
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