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

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.

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...