{"slug": "a-ut-austin-team-built-a-jacket-that-pulls-water-from-air", "title": "A UT Austin team built a jacket that pulls water from air", "summary": "A team of engineers at the University of Texas at Austin, led by Guihua Yu, has created a jacket capable of extracting drinking water from the air, the university announced June 11. The fabric, detailed June 10 in *Science Advances*, uses a specialized transport system of porous fibers to capture moisture while maintaining breathability. The innovation could enable wearable water harvesting for outdoor workers or those in arid environments.", "body_md": "Guihua Yu and engineering colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a jacket that harvests drinking water from air, the university said in a June 11 news release. The work was published June 10 in Science Advances. The useful detail is not the jacket form factor; it is the transport system inside the textile. The fabric uses hierarchical open porous fibers to capture moisture while preserving vapor diffusion through a breathable woven structure. The removable textile unit...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-ut-austin-team-built-a-jacket-that-pulls-water-from-air", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/a-ut-austin-team-built-a-jacket-that-pulls-water-from-air", "published_at": "2026-06-12 00:47:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-12 01:05:42.836068+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products"], "entities": ["Guihua Yu", "University of Texas at Austin"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-ut-austin-team-built-a-jacket-that-pulls-water-from-air", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-ut-austin-team-built-a-jacket-that-pulls-water-from-air.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-ut-austin-team-built-a-jacket-that-pulls-water-from-air.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-ut-austin-team-built-a-jacket-that-pulls-water-from-air.jsonld"}}