A sheet of aluminum, etched with billions of microscopic grooves by a femtosecond laser, sat angled toward the sun in a ...
The United Nations estimates that 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, and communities from California to ...
Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to ...
The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into ...
A sheet of metal, barely larger than a notebook, sits under a lamp in a University of Rochester lab. Seawater creeps up its ...