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DOI	10.1098/rsta.2019.0444
	Passive water harvesting by desert plants and animals: lessons from nature
	Gurera, Dev; Bhushan, Bharat
通讯作者	Bhushan, Bharat
来源期刊	PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
ISSN	1364-503X
EISSN	1471-2962
出版年	2020
卷号	378 期号:2167
英文摘要	Fresh water sustains human life and is vital for human health. For some of the poorest countries, 1 in 10 people do not have access to safe and easily accessible water sources. Water consumption by man continues to grow with an increasing population. The current supply of fresh water needs to be supplemented to meet future needs. Living nature provides many lessons for water harvesting. It has evolved species which can survive in the most arid regions of the world by passively collecting water from fog and condensation of water vapour in the night. Before the collected water evaporates, species have mechanisms to transport water for storage or consumption. These species possess unique chemistry and structures on or within the body for collection and transport of water. Among the high diversity of species surviving in deserts, only a handful of species have been studied. Based on lessons from nature, bioinspired water harvesters can be designed. In this paper, an overview of various desert plants and animals is given and known water harvesting mechanisms of some are presented. This article is part of the theme issue 'Bioinspired materials and surfaces for green science and technology (part 3)'.
英文关键词	bioinspiration water harvesting desert plants animals lessons from nature
类型	Review
语种	英语
国家	USA
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000524248400006
WOS关键词	NAMIB DESERT ; MOLOCH-HORRIDUS ; AGAMID LIZARDS ; HORNED LIZARD ; FOG-WATER ; RAIN ; COLLECTION ; TRANSPORT ; DRINKING ; BEHAVIOR
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/315307
作者单位	Ohio State Univ, NLBB, 201 West 19th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gurera, Dev,Bhushan, Bharat. Passive water harvesting by desert plants and animals: lessons from nature[J],2020,378(2167).
APA	Gurera, Dev,&Bhushan, Bharat.(2020).Passive water harvesting by desert plants and animals: lessons from nature.PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES,378(2167).
MLA	Gurera, Dev,et al."Passive water harvesting by desert plants and animals: lessons from nature".PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 378.2167(2020).