Toward pore-engineered 3D-printed materials for sorption water harvesting, interfacial evaporation, and radiative cooling

Trajkovski, Dejan (avtor), Wilson Marangattil, Higgins (avtor), Ali, Abdallah Y.M. (avtor), Xu, Jiaxing (avtor), Wang, Ruzhu (avtor), Poredoš, Primož (avtor)

Water scarcity has intensified interest in passive, sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH), interfacial evaporation (IE), and radiative cooling (RC) technologies that operate at the energy–water–air nexus through coupled heat and mass transfer. Although these approaches are frequently associated with hierarchical porous materials, their performance depends more fundamentally on mesoscale architecture, interfacial design, and system-level integration than on intrinsic nanoscale porosity alone. Additive manufacturing (AM) offers a versatile platform for engineering such architectures, providing precise control over geometry, connectivity, and functional gradients, while also enabling post-processing routes to introduce additional porosity where required. Unlike existing reviews that primarily focus on material systems or individual applications, this review establishes a unified manufacturing- and pore-architecture-centric perspective across SAWH, IE, and RC, emphasizing how AM processing governs transfer behavior and multifunctional performance. This review focuses on the role of AM in structuring porous and semi-porous materials for SAWH, IE, and RC, with particular emphasis on extrusion-based methods such as direct ink writing that offer broad material compatibility and process flexibility. We assess the most relevant 3D printing technologies for these applications and discuss their incorporation into operational devices. To address the absence of standardized, application-specific evaluation methods, we introduce a comprehensive characterization framework linking printing resolution, architectural features, and functional performance, including sorption dynamics, thermal robustness, and multifunctional coupling. Finally, we discuss future opportunities for composite design, system-level integration, and artificial-intelligence-assisted optimization to advance scalable water and thermal management solutions.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: additive manufacturing, atmospheric water harvesting, interfacial solar evaporation, materials science, nanotechnology, process engineering, radiative cooling
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.02 - Pregledni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FS - Fakulteta za strojništvo
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2026
• Št. strani: 44 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 38, iss. 61, art. e74850
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-190746
• UDK: 628.116:004.925.84
• ISSN pri članku: 0935-9648
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.74850
• COBISS.SI-ID: 303579395
• Datum objave v RUL: 03.11.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Advanced materials
• Skrajšan naslov: Adv. mater.
• Založnik: Wiley-VCH
• ISSN: 0935-9648
• COBISS.SI-ID: 14846981

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: dodajalna proizvodnja, pridobivanje vode iz zraka, mejno solarno izhlapevanje, materiali, nanotehnologija, procesno strojništvo, sevalno hlajenje