6th Bioinspired Materials 2022
Invited talk
22.03.2022 (CET)
Fog Harps: Bioinspired Material Systems for Collecting Atmospheric Water
BS

Prof. Dr. Brook S. Kennedy

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

S. Kennedy, B. (Speaker)¹; Boreyko, J.¹
¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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40 Min. Untertitel (CC)

Billions of people today are facing water scarcity and drought. Fog collection has demonstrated scalable potential to help mitigate these challenges, paired with additional resource management measures. Originally conceived hundreds of your ago, fog collector designs are now comprised of simple frame structures with suspended mesh materials, which have evolved only incrementally in the past few decades. Fog Harp is an ongoing exploration of fog collecting material systems based on the design and fluidics principles of fog drip, a fog collection phenomenon found with numerous coniferous trees including California Redwoods. Lab and field tests have shown these new materials have the potential to significantly improve the water yield of these passive collection devices. This presentation will summarize the Fog Harp project’s current work to date and future opportunities to advance the practice of fog collection.

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