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Penn Engineers Discover a New Class of Materials That Passively Harvest Water from Air
(blog.seas.upenn.edu)
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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The entropy of a little water mixed with air is higher. As with anything that mixes a little.
Condensation is exothermic, though, so the material will heat up slightly