Episode 12: Hydrogel adsorbs more water at elevated temperature

MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast · Sep 5, 2023 · 3m

While thermodynamics suggests that water sorption is more favorable at a low temperature, MRS Bulletin podcaster Laura Leay interviews post-doctoral researcher Xinyue Liu from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who reports a hydrogel that can adsorb more water at elevated temperatures. Liu and the research team from MIT and the University of Michigan were searching for a way to harvest water from the air without using a lot of energy. They want to tackle the problem of water scarcity and find a way of generating water sustainably. To do so, they tested many different sorbents…