Desalination system gains spotlight on CNN for World Water Day

Currently, one of humanity’s most pressing challenges is water scarcity, with 2.2 billion people lacking access to safe drinking water. On World Water Day, Lenan Zhang and Yang Zhong engaged in a conversation with CNN’s chief climate correspondent Bill Weir on...

This salty gel could harvest water from desert air

Congratulations to Gustav Graeber, Carlos Díaz-Marin, Leon Gaugler, Yang Zhong, Bachir El Fil, and Xinyue Liu for their recent work on Extreme Water Uptake of Hygroscopic Hydrogels through Maximized Swelling-Induced Salt Loading, which was featured on MIT News! We...