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Atmospheric water harvesting

Capturing water from air in an economical and stable way

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An atmospheric water harvesting device comprising a super-stable hygroscopic hydrogel origami panel and a window-like glass chamber operates efficiently at a wide range of relative humidities, providing an economic and safe water solution for decentralized regions.

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Fig. 1: Design of the economically stable atmospheric water harvesting window (AWHW).

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    In the version of the article initially published, in Fig. 1 the direction of the “Sorption” and “Desorption” arrows were reversed and have now been amended in the HTML and PDF versions so that the blue “Sorption” arrow points upwards and the red “Desorption” arrow points downwards.

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We acknowledge support in part from the National Science Foundation (CMMI-2338747).

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    Jiabin Liu & Shaoting Lin

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