Schematic illustration showing the fabrication process of the CNT/BST foam with various shapes. Effects of the BST content and annealing temperature on TE properties of the CNT/BST foams. Highly ...

This is a schematic representation of the formation process through evaporation-driven oriented assembly. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 8, 2015, issue of Science ...

jun xu / Getty Images. Transpiration is the evaporation of water from trees out and into the Earth's atmosphere. Leaf transpiration occurs through pores called stomata, and at a necessary "cost ...

But as the researchers note, the bigger picture is that it could slow down and harness the evaporation process, saving water and producing power at the same time.

Making sure. Because the discovery of light-based evaporation was so striking, the MIT researchers carried out 14 different verification experiments that all supported the finding.

"Evaporation turns out to be a process driven by very small temperature differences. Often, only ten-thousandth parts of kelvin are enough to make it happen!," says Dr Eng. Daniel Jakubczyk (IP PAS).

Image credit: sanbeliaev/Shutterstock.com. DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION. ... "We call the light-induced evaporation process the photomolecular effect." Water does not absorb much light, ...