Overview
- Addresses pressing societal concerns such as clean water scarcity for a large fraction of the global population
- Describes bioinspired water harvesting from fog and condensation, water purification and oil-water separation techniques
- Presents various designs for water harvesting towers and projections for water collection
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Materials Science (SSMATERIALS, volume 299)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Fresh water sustains human life and is vital for health. However, water scarcity affects more than 40% of the global population and is projected to rise, especially in some of the world’s most impoverished countries. Additionally, water contamination is one of the most critical environmental and natural resource concerns of the 21st century. This book addresses these topics with a presentation of the development of sustainable and environmentally friendly bioinspired surfaces for water harvestingfrom fog and condensation, as well as bioinspired oil-water separation techniques for removing oil contaminants from oil-water mixtures and oil-water emulsions.
Intended for novices as well as experts in the field, the book offers actionable insight for practitioners, solution seekers, and the generally curious alike. It serves as an excellent accompanying text for one-semester courses in biomimetics, water supply and management, or environmental engineering.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bioinspired Water Harvesting, Purification, and Oil-Water Separation
Authors: Bharat Bhushan
Series Title: Springer Series in Materials Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42132-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42131-1Published: 25 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42134-2Published: 25 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42132-8Published: 24 March 2020
Series ISSN: 0933-033X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-2812
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 232
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomaterials, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology