In Texas, a jacket for survival without a flask and a canister was sewn.
Water from the air is usually mined with the help of bulky technological installations, but specialists of the University of Texas at Austin showed a more compact option: a fabric from which you can make clothes for collecting drinking water.
The team presented a jacket of a special material that captures moisture from the surrounding air and transmits it to removable storage elements. The fabric does not just absorb water, but directs the collected moisture into separate modules, so the system was able to check not only in the laboratory, but also in a wearable format.
After collection, the drives are placed in a folding manifold and heated. So the system turns moisture into drinking water. In the tests, the jacket produced from 400 to 900 milliliters of water per day, depending on the humidity of the air.
The authors of the work believe that such material can be used not only in clothes. By the same principle, you can create backpacks, tents and other equipment that helps to extract water away from the usual infrastructure. Potential scenarios include rescue workers, emergency assistance in remote areas, hiking, and extreme sports.
Now we are talking only about test development, and not about the finished mass product. Experts showed the operability of the idea in the format of a jacket, but there are no data on the timing of commercial release, price or scaling technology yet.
Water from the air is usually mined with the help of bulky technological installations, but specialists of the University of Texas at Austin showed a more compact option: a fabric from which you can make clothes for collecting drinking water.
The team presented a jacket of a special material that captures moisture from the surrounding air and transmits it to removable storage elements. The fabric does not just absorb water, but directs the collected moisture into separate modules, so the system was able to check not only in the laboratory, but also in a wearable format.
After collection, the drives are placed in a folding manifold and heated. So the system turns moisture into drinking water. In the tests, the jacket produced from 400 to 900 milliliters of water per day, depending on the humidity of the air.
The authors of the work believe that such material can be used not only in clothes. By the same principle, you can create backpacks, tents and other equipment that helps to extract water away from the usual infrastructure. Potential scenarios include rescue workers, emergency assistance in remote areas, hiking, and extreme sports.
Now we are talking only about test development, and not about the finished mass product. Experts showed the operability of the idea in the format of a jacket, but there are no data on the timing of commercial release, price or scaling technology yet.
