In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat

Nov 02, 2023

(Nanowerk News) Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, from the sweat cooling our bodies to the dew burning off in the morning sun. But science’s understanding of this ubiquitous process may have been missing a piece all this time.

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Researchers found that under specific conditions, light can cause evaporation directly, without the need for heat, and even more efficiently than heat.

This discovery was made when observing that water in a hydrogel evaporated at rates higher than what could be explained by the heat it received.

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