Neat News 2867 (added 2023-11-06)
Light may make water evaporate
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Researchers found that under certain conditions, light can make water evaporate directly, that is, without heating it up, by knocking out water molecules at the border to the air. Concretely they experimented with a hydrogel, but assume that the effect is more widespread such as in the formation of fog. The new insight may lead to a more efficient way of light based water desalination.
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