# A UT Austin team built a jacket that pulls water from air

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/a-ut-austin-team-built-a-jacket-that-pulls-water-from-air>
> Published: 2026-06-12 00:47:12+00:00

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...