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𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.

• ⠀ ⠀ NAME: Renge Uzumaki (うずまき 蓮華)

Meaning “Lotus Flower, Whirlpool”

• ⠀ ⠀ REGISTRATION NO: 014278

• ⠀ ⠀ RANK: Chūnin

• ⠀ ⠀ BIRTHDATE: July 31st, Leo

• ⠀ ⠀ AGE: 19+ years old

• ⠀ ⠀ HEIGHT: 167 cm (5’4”)

• ⠀ ⠀ WEIGHT: 50 kg (110 lbs)

• ⠀ ⠀ BLOOD TYPE: O+

• ⠀ ⠀ CLASSIFICATION: Sensory-Type, Fūinjutsu User

• ⠀ ⠀ AFFILIATION: Konohagakure (formerly of Shiosuna)

• ⠀ ⠀ OCCUPATION: Sealing Specialist

• ⠀ ⠀ TEAM: Konoha Barrier Corps

• ⠀ ⠀ CHAKRA NATURE: Wind & Water

𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄.

Renge is slender and athletic, slightly taller than average. She wears a navy-blue combat tunic with a short skirt overlay and durable leggings. A black belt with red trimming and the Uzumaki clan’s whirlpool crest is cinched at her waist. Her headband is worn as a ribbon around her upper left arm. Renge has deep crimson-red hair that falls down to her thighs in loose waves, usually tied in a low ponytail with chakra string for utility. Her dark blue eyes are framed by soft lashes and expressive brows.

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘.

Renge is a whirlwind of energy with a contagious smile. Always talking with her hands and bouncing on her toes, she is bubbly, expressive, and full of curiosity: she’ll ask about your favorite color mid-battle and be dead serious. Although she is a sealing prodigy and dedicated to her ninja duties, she keeps the mood light by cracking jokes or giving out nicknames to everyone. Her vibrancy is infectious, and she believes every problem has a creative solution that involves sparkles or confetti tags.

• ⠀ ⠀ POSITIVE: focused, optimistic

• ⠀ ⠀ NEUTRAL: traditional, tunnel-visioned

• ⠀ ⠀ NEGATIVE: unforgiving, ruthless

𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃.

Linked separately here!

𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒.

{ Scale: 0.0 to 5.0, per standard Naruto databooks }

• ⠀ ⠀ MISSION RECORD:

D-Rank: 24

C-Rank: 29

B-Rank: 12

A-Rank: 3

S-Rank: 0

𝐉𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐔 & 𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐍𝐈𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒.

• ⠀ ⠀ ADAMANTINE SEALING CHAINS (金剛封鎖­): A fuinjutsu technique where users produce chains made out of their own chakra, which emerge from their torso. They control these chains as they extend outwards from their body to wrap around targets and restrain them. A barrier can also be erected between two or more sealing chains.

• ⠀ ⠀ EIGHT TRIGRAMS SEALING STYLE (八卦の封印式­): A fuinjutsu of the Uzumaki clan, this is a stronger and doubled version of the Four Symbols Seal. It is used to seal a large enemy or an evil spirit into a target, whether it be an object or human body. If the two Four Symbols Seals do not completely overlap, the large enemy / evil spirit's chakra is able to merge with their host. Unfortunately, the seal naturally weakens over time and requires a key to strengthen it. This technique is often utilized with Konohagakure’s jinchuriki for the Nine Tails.

• ⠀ ⠀ BLUE BLOOM SENSORY FIELD (青花感覚結界術): A custom-crafted jutsu, it creates a wide-reaching sensory barrier around her. This manifests briefly as a shimmer of pale blue petals that burst outward in a soft wave. They carry her chakra signature and act as receivers, instantly transmitting feedback about any chakra sources they pass near. Instead of traditional sensory techniques that rely on steady scanning, Blue Bloom spreads in pulsing waves that make this technique harder to detect and extremely useful in tracking or locating hidden foes / genjutsu users / suppressed chakra signatures. It can reach 50–150 meters (circular radius, depending on chakra used) and is pulse-waved every 10 seconds, lasting approximately 30-60 seconds. With training, she can evolve this into a “Multi-Bloom Variant” that will leave chakra blossoms at set checkpoints for continuous field monitoring. Some limitations are: continuous scanning drains chakra quickly, is not able to identify individuals (she can detect location, chakra size, and emotion intensity), overwhelming chakra sources (like tailed beasts or high-level summons) can dull her sense for weaker targets that might be nearby.

𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐀.

• ⠀ ⠀ FAVORITE FOOD: Lightly-salted seaweed chips

• ⠀ ⠀ DISLIKED FOOD: Cold tofu (she calls it “sad pudding”)

• ⠀ ⠀ HOBBIES: Painting with glitter, collecting trinkets

• ⠀ ⠀ DREAM: Undetermined at this moment

• ⠀ ⠀ NINJA WAY: “Preserve the name. Perfect the seal.”

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🗂️ COMMONWEALTH CREW DOSSIER — BELLEVELLE CHARELLE

Position: Chief of Security

Service Branch: Pan Galactic Commonwealth Command

Vessel Assignment: PGC Starship Europa

Species: Thae’len

Gender Identity: Male (He/Him)

Ceremonial Name: Bellevelle Charelle

Operational Codename: Charelle

Security Clearance: Black Prism

⸻

PERSONNEL OVERVIEW:

Charelle is Europa’s Chief of Security, and the most quietly feared being aboard. He floats through the ship with perfect silence, his porcelain-pale figure wrapped in a ceremonial dress that belies his lethality. Few realize that beneath the soft folds of lace and tradition lives a warrior of surgical precision, capable of stopping a man’s heart with a twitch of unseen force.

But Bellevelle Charelle’s greatest burden is not his role aboard the ship—it’s the one imposed upon him by birth.

Thae’len are a monogendered male species. In their society, power is not divided by sex, but by ceremonial role. To possess a “wife”—a Thae’len male with supreme beauty and refined features—is the ultimate mark of wealth, prestige, and authority. These ceremonial wives are assigned, not chosen. They are pampered, dressed, silenced, and displayed—symbols of dominance, not partners.

Bellevelle was selected as such a wife from the moment his bone structure came in. His name, appearance, and role were imposed by caste rule and his husband’s political ambitions. His bright pink eyes (concealing the traditional vivid blue irises beneath contact lenses), waist-length black hair, and lavishly feminine presentation are the direct result of ceremonial engineering.

But Bellevelle is not a wife. He is a soldier. A man. A blade.

Captain Cole and the Europa crew respect his true identity. On duty, he is addressed only as Charelle—his preferred codename. His uniform jacket is draped over his ceremonial dress, not as rebellion, but as survival. When his husband visits the ship, however, that illusion shatters. Bellevelle is made to sit quietly beside him. He is called “Bellevelle.” He is a prize, not a person. And most painfully of all:

⸻

MEDICAL RESTRAINT CLAUSE:

Per diplomatic agreement with his husband—an influential Thae’len noble—Bellevelle’s telekinetic powers have been chemically restrained. A long-term neuroinhibitor course restricts his tactile telekinesis to a 5-meter effective range, drastically suppressing his full potential. This enforced limitation is justified as a “precaution,” but its true purpose is symbolic: a domestication of threat. Bellevelle’s body is powerful, so it is muzzled. His identity is male, so it is softened. This measure, though not technically compulsory, is unremovable without violating Thae’len diplomatic protections.

Captain Cole has made repeated formal objections.

⸻

ABILITIES & SKILLS:

• Tactile Telekinesis (Inhibited): Bellevelle’s natural range of 15 meters has been chemically reduced to 5. Within this radius, he can manipulate objects, restrain targets, or defend himself with invisible force.

• Kinetic Halo Awareness: He senses motion and physical intent within his bubble of telekinetic sensitivity, even from behind or through obstructions.

• Combat Doctrine – Immovable Blossom: A signature style relying on defensive posture and invisible redirection. Bellevelle’s body barely moves in combat; the space around him does.

• Non-Lethal Mastery: Preferred suppression techniques rely on disabling over killing. To date, he has never taken a life aboard Europa.

⸻

APPEARANCE:

Bellevelle Charelle is ethereal in appearance—strikingly beautiful by Thae’len standards, and haunting to others. His skin is white as ceramic, unmarred by blemish or pore. His long black hair flows in a single sheet, reaching his calves. A faint but elegant cranial ridge runs down the center of his forehead—a Thae’len sign of maturity.

He wears a soft pink ceremonial gown, lace-trimmed and high-collared, beneath his gunpowder-grey uniform jacket (accented with a thin pink stripe). His eyes, normally a piercing blue, are masked by ceremonial pink lenses. Despite this visual softness, his floating posture, unreadable gaze, and stillness give him an uncanny, unsettling aura.

He levitates at all times. His feet have not touched the ground since his induction.

⸻

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE:

• Core Identity: Male (he/him). Resentful of ceremonial treatment.

• Combat Mindset: Controlled, contained, nonverbal execution.

• Behavior: Quiet, ritualistic, never raises his voice.

• Trauma Markers: Displays signs of dissociative coping during ceremonial interactions.

• Crew Relations: Deeply respected. Closest bonds with Vallis (shared philosophical silence) and Wyllie (mutual empathy).

⸻

NOTES ON SYMBOLISM:

Charelle’s narrative is intentionally allegorical. While he is not literally transgender, his story echoes the experience of many trans individuals who are denied gender autonomy, trapped within roles assigned by society, family, or biology.

His appearance, though lauded as “beautiful,” is a prison. His name—Bellevelle—is a lie with legal teeth. His marriage is a gilded cage. His powers, like his agency, are chemically dulled. And yet, despite it all, he insists on existing as himself. Quietly. Uncompromisingly. He is a blade hidden in silk. A pronoun defended by silence. A man denied nothing but the right to be.

As he once said to Chorus:

“If I must be beautiful, then let me be dangerous too.”

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Weight Chart of Jindal SS 304 Pipes – Schedule Wise | Udhhyog India

When precision and quality matter in your piping system, Jindal SS 304 pipes are the gold standard for industrial, structural, and plumbing applications. At Udhhyog, we supply authentic Jindal stainless steel pipes with verified weights as per schedule standards (5S, 10S, 40, 80, 160)—helping engineers, fabricators, and buyers make informed choices.

This article provides a complete schedule-wise SS 304 pipe weight chart, essential for estimating project load, pipe cost, and installation planning.

📌 What Is Pipe Schedule?

Pipe schedule is a term used to denote the wall thickness of a pipe. The thicker the wall, the higher the schedule number, and the greater the pressure-carrying capacity and weight per meter.

Common Schedules for SS 304 Pipes:

SCH 5S – Light-duty, low-pressure

SCH 10S – Plumbing, food-grade use

SCH 40S – Structural, industrial use

SCH 80S – High-pressure lines

SCH 160 – Extreme pressure systems

All Jindal pipes follow ASTM A312 / ASME B36.19M dimensional standards.

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At Udhhyog, we supply genuine Jindal SS 304 pipes that are:

✅ ISI & ASTM-certified

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✅ Supplied in polished or mill finish

✅ Packed with full weight breakdown

Whether you’re sourcing for chemical plants, water lines, or fabrication, our Jindal pipes are trusted across industries.

📊 Weight Chart of Jindal SS 304 Pipes – Schedule Wise (Per Meter)

NB (inches)OD (mm)SCH 5S (kg/m)SCH 10S (kg/m)SCH 40S (kg/m)SCH 80S (kg/m)SCH 160 (kg/m)½"21.340.850.851.291.722.16¾"26.671.091.091.692.283.001"33.401.371.732.523.374.701¼"42.161.742.803.264.446.301½"48.261.992.803.625.017.102"60.332.503.425.027.0910.02½"73.033.023.756.629.1012.603"88.903.704.268.1211.3017.404"114.304.795.4610.7015.3025.806"168.287.0810.2018.5028.5049.708"219.0810.2014.1026.5041.4073.2010"273.0513.3018.4035.0055.20102.6012"323.8515.8023.1043.9074.20140.50

📌 Weights are approximate and based on SS 304 density (7.93 g/cm³). Consult Udhhyog for exact project-specific weights and MTC.

📥 Download the PDF – Jindal SS 304 Pipe Weight Chart

👉 Click here to download the full schedule-wise weight chart in PDF Includes weights for:

Sizes from ½" to 12"

Schedules 5S to 160

Polished, pickled, and mill finish options

📦 Jindal SS 304 Pipe Sizes Available at Udhhyog

Size RangeWall ThicknessStandard Length½" to 12" NB1.2 mm to 12 mm6 metersCustom OD (metric)On requestCut-to-length

Finishes available:

Mill finish

Mirror polished (400–600 grit)

Matte finish

Pickled & passivated

🧰 Applications of Jindal SS 304 Pipes (Schedule Wise)

ScheduleApplication AreaSCH 5SDecorative piping, food-grade linesSCH 10SPlumbing, water supply, railing projectsSCH 40SGeneral fabrication, structural workSCH 80SPressure lines, process industriesSCH 160High-pressure steam, chemical lines

🧾 MTC & Certifications from Udhhyog

All Jindal SS 304 pipes supplied by Udhhyog come with:

✅ Mill Test Certificate (MTC)

✅ Heat number traceability

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✅ GST invoice with weight summary

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💰 Price Estimation Guide – Jindal SS 304 Pipes (2025 Rates)

SizeScheduleApprox Rate (₹/kg)Price per Meter (Est.)1"SCH 10S₹230 – ₹250₹400 – ₹4502"SCH 40S₹240 – ₹260₹650 – ₹7503"SCH 80S₹260 – ₹280₹900 – ₹1,1006"SCH 160₹280 – ₹320₹4,800 – ₹5,500

📞 Contact Udhhyog for accurate, size-wise rates based on quantity and finish.

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📚 FAQs – Jindal SS 304 Pipe Weight Chart (Schedule Wise)

❓1. Are these weights verified?

Yes. Udhhyog provides Jindal-certified pipes with verified weights per ASTM/ASME standards.

❓2. Can I use this chart for estimating cost?

Absolutely. Multiply weight per meter × price per kg to get the cost/meter.

❓3. What is the difference between SCH 40 and SCH 40S?

SCH 40 is typically used for carbon steel, while SCH 40S refers to stainless steel schedule as per ASME B36.19M.

❓4. Do you supply polished pipes with schedule markings?

Yes. We supply mirror-polished SS 304 pipes with schedule and heat number marking along the length.

❓5. Is this chart valid for seamless and ERW pipes?

Yes. Weight varies based on wall thickness. Both seamless and ERW pipes follow the same schedule dimensions.

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Window-Sized Device Taps The Air For Safe Drinking Water

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Engineers Developed An Atmospheric Water Harvester That Produces Fresh Water Anywhere — Even Death Valley, California.

— Jennifer Chu | MIT News | Date: June 11, 2025

A close-up of a new origami-inspired hydrogel material, designed by MIT Engineers, that swells to absorb water from the air. When water condenses out of the material to be collected, the individual hydrogel spheres shrink back down to capture more moisture. Credit: Courtesy of the Researchers

Today, 2.2 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. In the United States, more than 46 million people experience water insecurity, living with either no running water or water that is unsafe to drink. The increasing need for drinking water is stretching traditional resources such as rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.

To improve access to safe and affordable drinking water, MIT engineers are tapping into an unconventional source: the air. The Earth’s atmosphere contains millions of billions of gallons of water in the form of vapor. If this vapor can be efficiently captured and condensed, it could supply clean drinking water in places where traditional water resources are inaccessible.

With that goal in mind, the MIT team has developed and tested a new atmospheric water harvester and shown that it efficiently captures water vapor and produces safe drinking water across a range of relative humidities, including dry desert air.

The new device is a black, window-sized vertical panel, made from a water-absorbent hydrogel material, enclosed in a glass chamber coated with a cooling layer. The hydrogel resembles black bubble wrap, with small dome-shaped structures that swell when the hydrogel soaks up water vapor. When the captured vapor evaporates, the domes shrink back down in an origami-like transformation. The evaporated vapor then condenses on the the glass, where it can flow down and out through a tube, as clean and drinkable water.

MIT Engineers test a passive water harvester in Death Valley, California. The window-sized setup is made from an origami-inspired hydrogel material (black) that absorbs water from the air, and releases it into tubes where researchers can collect the moisture as pure drinking water. Credit: Courtesy of the Researchers; MIT News

The system runs entirely on its own, without a power source, unlike other designs that require batteries, solar panels, or electricity from the grid. The team ran the device for over a week in Death Valley, California — the driest region in North America. Even in very low-humidity conditions, the device squeezed drinking water from the air at rates of up to 160 milliliters (about two-thirds of a cup) per day.

The team estimates that multiple vertical panels, set up in a small array, could passively supply a household with drinking water, even in arid desert environments. What’s more, the system’s water production should increase with humidity, supplying drinking water in temperate and tropical climates.

“We have built a meter-scale device that we hope to deploy in resource-limited regions, where even a solar cell is not very accessible,” says Xuanhe Zhao, the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. “It’s a test of feasibility in scaling up this water harvesting technology. Now people can build it even larger, or make it into parallel panels, to supply drinking water to people and achieve real impact.”

Zhao and his colleagues present the details of the new water harvesting design in a paper appearing today in the journal Nature Water. The study’s lead author is former MIT postdoc “Will” Chang Liu, who is currently an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). MIT co-authors include Xiao-Yun Yan, Shucong Li, and Bolei Deng, along with collaborators from multiple other institutions.

Carrying Capacity

Hydrogels are soft, porous materials that are made mainly from water and a microscopic network of interconnecting polymer fibers. Zhao’s group at MIT has primarily explored the use of hydrogels in biomedical applications, including adhesive coatings for medical implants, soft and flexible electrodes, and noninvasive imaging stickers.

“Through our work with soft materials, one property we know very well is the way hydrogel is very good at absorbing water from air,” Zhao says.

Researchers are exploring a number of ways to harvest water vapor for drinking water. Among the most efficient so far are devices made from metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs — ultra-porous materials that have also been shown to capture water from dry desert air. But the MOFs do not swell or stretch when absorbing water, and are limited in vapor-carrying capacity.

Water From Air

The group’s new hydrogel-based water harvester addresses another key problem in similar designs. Other groups have designed water harvesters out of micro- or nano-porous hydrogels. But the water produced from these designs can be salty, requiring additional filtering. Salt is a naturally absorbent material, and researchers embed salts — typically, lithium chloride — in hydrogel to increase the material’s water absorption. The drawback, however, is that this salt can leak out with the water when it is eventually collected.

The team’s new design significantly limits salt leakage. Within the hydrogel itself, they included an extra ingredient: glycerol, a liquid compound that naturally stabilizes salt, keeping it within the gel rather than letting it crystallize and leak out with the water. The hydrogel itself has a microstructure that lacks nanoscale pores, which further prevents salt from escaping the material. The salt levels in the water they collected were below the standard threshold for safe drinking water, and significantly below the levels produced by many other hydrogel-based designs.

In addition to tuning the hydrogel’s composition, the researchers made improvements to its form. Rather than keeping the gel as a flat sheet, they molded it into a pattern of small domes resembling bubble wrap, that act to increase the gel’s surface area, along with the amount of water vapor it can absorb.

The researchers fabricated a half-square-meter of hydrogel and encased the material in a window-like glass chamber. They coated the exterior of the chamber with a special polymer film, which helps to cool the glass and stimulates any water vapor in the hydrogel to evaporate and condense onto the glass. They installed a simple tubing system to collect the water as it flows down the glass.

In November 2023, the team traveled to Death Valley, California, and set up the device as a vertical panel. Over seven days, they took measurements as the hydrogel absorbed water vapor during the night (the time of day when water vapor in the desert is highest). In the daytime, with help from the sun, the harvested water evaporated out from the hydrogel and condensed onto the glass.

Over this period, the device worked across a range of humidities, from 21 to 88 percent, and produced between 57 and 161.5 milliliters of drinking water per day. Even in the driest conditions, the device harvested more water than other passive and some actively powered designs.

“This is just a proof-of-concept design, and there are a lot of things we can optimize,” Liu says. “For instance, we could have a multipanel design. And we’re working on a next generation of the material to further improve its intrinsic properties.”

“We imagine that you could one day deploy an array of these panels, and the footprint is very small because they are all vertical,” says Zhao, who has plans to further test the panels in many resource-limited regions. “Then you could have many panels together, collecting water all the time, at household scale.”

— This work was supported, in part, by the MIT J-WAFS Water and Food Seed Grant, the MIT-Chinese University of Hong Kong collaborative research program, and the UM6P-MIT Collaborative Research Program.

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Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water

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Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water

Today, 2.2 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. In the United States, more than 46 million people experience water insecurity, living with either no running water or water that is unsafe to drink. The increasing need for drinking water is stretching traditional resources such as rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.

To improve access to safe and affordable drinking water, MIT engineers are tapping into an unconventional source: the air. The Earth’s atmosphere contains millions of billions of gallons of water in the form of vapor. If this vapor can be efficiently captured and condensed, it could supply clean drinking water in places where traditional water resources are inaccessible.

With that goal in mind, the MIT team has developed and tested a new atmospheric water harvester and shown that it efficiently captures water vapor and produces safe drinking water across a range of relative humidities, including dry desert air.

The new device is a black, window-sized vertical panel, made from a water-absorbent hydrogel material, enclosed in a glass chamber coated with a cooling layer. The hydrogel resembles black bubble wrap, with small dome-shaped structures that swell when the hydrogel soaks up water vapor. When the captured vapor evaporates, the domes shrink back down in an origami-like transformation. The evaporated vapor then condenses on the the glass, where it can flow down and out through a tube, as clean and drinkable water.

MIT engineers test a passive water harvester in Death Valley, CA. The window-sized setup is made from an origami-inspired hydrogel material (black) that absorbs water from the air, and releases it into tubes where researchers can collect the moisture as pure drinking water.

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers; MIT News

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The system runs entirely on its own, without a power source, unlike other designs that require batteries, solar panels, or electricity from the grid. The team ran the device for over a week in Death Valley, California — the driest region in North America. Even in very low-humidity conditions, the device squeezed drinking water from the air at rates of up to 160 milliliters (about two-thirds of a cup) per day.

The team estimates that multiple vertical panels, set up in a small array, could passively supply a household with drinking water, even in arid desert environments. What’s more, the system’s water production should increase with humidity, supplying drinking water in temperate and tropical climates.

“We have built a meter-scale device that we hope to deploy in resource-limited regions, where even a solar cell is not very accessible,” says Xuanhe Zhao, the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. “It’s a test of feasibility in scaling up this water harvesting technology. Now people can build it even larger, or make it into parallel panels, to supply drinking water to people and achieve real impact.”

Zhao and his colleagues present the details of the new water harvesting design in a paper appearing today in the journal Nature Water. The study’s lead author is former MIT postdoc “Will” Chang Liu, who is currently an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). MIT co-authors include Xiao-Yun Yan, Shucong Li, and Bolei Deng, along with collaborators from multiple other institutions.

Carrying capacity

Hydrogels are soft, porous materials that are made mainly from water and a microscopic network of interconnecting polymer fibers. Zhao’s group at MIT has primarily explored the use of hydrogels in biomedical applications, including adhesive coatings for medical implants, soft and flexible electrodes, and noninvasive imaging stickers.

“Through our work with soft materials, one property we know very well is the way hydrogel is very good at absorbing water from air,” Zhao says.

Researchers are exploring a number of ways to harvest water vapor for drinking water. Among the most efficient so far are devices made from metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs — ultra-porous materials that have also been shown to capture water from dry desert air. But the MOFs do not swell or stretch when absorbing water, and are limited in vapor-carrying capacity.

Water from air

The group’s new hydrogel-based water harvester addresses another key problem in similar designs. Other groups have designed water harvesters out of micro- or nano-porous hydrogels. But the water produced from these designs can be salty, requiring additional filtering. Salt is a naturally absorbent material, and researchers embed salts — typically, lithium chloride — in hydrogel to increase the material’s water absorption. The drawback, however, is that this salt can leak out with the water when it is eventually collected.

The team’s new design significantly limits salt leakage. Within the hydrogel itself, they included an extra ingredient: glycerol, a liquid compound that naturally stabilizes salt, keeping it within the gel rather than letting it crystallize and leak out with the water. The hydrogel itself has a microstructure that lacks nanoscale pores, which further prevents salt from escaping the material. The salt levels in the water they collected were below the standard threshold for safe drinking water, and significantly below the levels produced by many other hydrogel-based designs.

In addition to tuning the hydrogel’s composition, the researchers made improvements to its form. Rather than keeping the gel as a flat sheet, they molded it into a pattern of small domes resembling bubble wrap, that act to increase the gel’s surface area, along with the amount of water vapor it can absorb.

The researchers fabricated a half-square-meter of hydrogel and encased the material in a window-like glass chamber. They coated the exterior of the chamber with a special polymer film, which helps to cool the glass and stimulates any water vapor in the hydrogel to evaporate and condense onto the glass. They installed a simple tubing system to collect the water as it flows down the glass.

In November 2023, the team traveled to Death Valley, California, and set up the device as a vertical panel. Over seven days, they took measurements as the hydrogel absorbed water vapor during the night (the time of day when water vapor in the desert is highest). In the daytime, with help from the sun, the harvested water evaporated out from the hydrogel and condensed onto the glass.

Over this period, the device worked across a range of humidities, from 21 to 88 percent, and produced between 57 and 161.5 milliliters of drinking water per day. Even in the driest conditions, the device harvested more water than other passive and some actively powered designs.

“This is just a proof-of-concept design, and there are a lot of things we can optimize,” Liu says. “For instance, we could have a multipanel design. And we’re working on a next generation of the material to further improve its intrinsic properties.”

“We imagine that you could one day deploy an array of these panels, and the footprint is very small because they are all vertical,” says Zhao, who has plans to further test the panels in many resource-limited regions. “Then you could have many panels together, collecting water all the time, at household scale.”

This work was supported, in part, by the MIT J-WAFS Water and Food Seed Grant, the MIT-Chinese University of Hong Kong collaborative research program, and the UM6P-MIT collaborative research program.

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Bubble wrap ialah keliru tunggal peralatan pembungkusan yg berupa lembaran plastik dan mempunyai gelembung-gelembung di semua bagiannya dimana bertujuan bagi melindungi barang produk sekitar stress, benturan atau guncangan, sehingga produk yang sudah disebutkan aman dan tak rusak. Disediakan pada berbagai pilihan warna dan dimensi. Jika kau sedang mencari pembahasan mengenai jual plastik bubble wrap, anda terletak di situs yg benar. Gesitnya perkembangan information technology ahir-ahir ini menyebabkan positif pada segala kalangan. Putra-putri perguruan, mahasiswa, ataupun masyarakat dapat dengan mudah mengakses pengetahuan yang dia-dia inginkan. Tiada perlu repot-repot hadir ke tertentu wahana guna memiliki wawasan tentang wahana tersebut. Asalkan bisa terhubung dengan jaringan online, dimanapun kami cukup kami bisa menggali semua informasi yg kami perlukan. Website berikut ini secara sadar kami cipta guna menyediakan tulisan-tulisan bagi untuk keperluan penelitian, tugas madrasah, atau yg lainnya. Opini / masukan yg membangun sangat kita perlukan agar perkembangan pengetahuan yang kami jabarkan

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Ulasan grosir bubble wrap ini mampu kita temui pada web laman. Halaman yg dimaksud ialah web atau alamat web yg terdapat di online. Isi artikel mampu bermacam-macam sesuai sekitar keinginan pembuat web halaman. Yg harapannya kita ulas tempo ini merupakan web laman yg bermuatan tulisan mengenai suatu barang. Adanya ulasan yang dibikin akan berguna sebagai satu orang yang menginginkannya, sebab membentang hulu informasi guna bisa difungsikan untuk material riset, mengadakan mandat sekolah atau guna mendapatkan wawasan serta wawasan yg baru. Tulisan artikel mampu dibaca dg gampang oleh karena itu, jadi harapannya sangat mengampu sebagai seseorang yang menggali informasi / informasi dg pesat. Referensi mampu diakses darimana sekedar, sebab dengan adanya ilmu pengetahuan waktu ini yang kian kedepan dan tumbuh. Dengan sains yg semakin canggih dg mesin pemburu sendirinya seorang insan yang di kota, di kelurahan ataupun pada pedalaman bisa menemukan tulisan ini. Bagi dapat bisa mengakses sebuah ulasan perlu terdapatnya jaringan. Jaringan merupakan suatu skema ditempatmana tunggal dengan yg lainnya bisa terhubung. Dengan gampangnya serta canggihnya tehnologi, maka kamu mampu mengakses situs ini bilamana serta dimana saja yg anda ingin. Pabila dikau mempunyai pendapat, pandangan / opini yang beda tentang artikel berikut ini anda dapat berkontribusi atau menyampaikan lebih lanjut pada dalam persegi pendapat. Pada pada website situs ini sudah tersedia kolom bagi komentar, serta atau dapat menghubungi dg nomor yang sudah tertera pada ulasan berikut ini. Jual-beli gelembung bungkus atau plastik gelembung yang ialah keliru satu peralatan kemasan yang digunakan sebagai melindungi dan meminimalisir kerusakan hasil-hasil yg bersifat fragile rawan rusak waktu dalam proses pengiriman mover oleh jasa ekspedisi kurir. Kita jual-beli bubble wrap gulungan berbagai ukuran serta warna. Bagi detail serta wawasan produk silakan mengkontak kami.

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***

June 26th 2021, Saturday

When Sander wakes up, it’s to the early morning June sunlight hitting him straight in the face. There’s a vague smell of alcohol lingering in the air, and he groans pitifully when he remembers the amount of beer he drank last night; well, it wasn’t that much per se, but for his not-usually-drinking self it was a bit much, which would explain the sour taste in his mouth. He could be beating himself up for letting a little too much loose and messing up his rather strict rules, but it’s finally summertime and he was feeling so happy and free. Exams are done and over with, bigger gatherings are allowed again, and most importantly, the love of his life has just graduated high school and-

Wait. 

He blinks his eyes open, arm reaching to the other side of the bed expecting a warm body, but it’s met with cold sheets instead. 

Where did that love of his life go? 

Bones cracking when he sits up on the bed, he rubs the sleep out of his eyes like a little boy, looking around the room, a twinge of worry in his mind. Robbe was way more drunk than him yesterday, being a giggly, inebriated, lovely, messy mess that was barely standing when the party came to an end. Sander had to practically carry him to their cabin, with Robbe wrapped like a koala around his back, holding tight as he mumbled love declarations into Sander’s hair until he fell asleep, arm looped around his head and cheek resting on top of it. It was unbearably cute, but it was also a miracle Sander’s legs didn’t give out because as small as Robbe is, carrying his dead weight on his back is a challenge.

For a second, a dark scenario enters his mind, and he’s working himself up over Robbe maybe getting up at some point to throw up and being so drunk he choked in the bathroom (yes, he’s a tad dramatic), but then a scrap of paper lying on the makeshift bedside table that is his backpack catches his sight and relief washes over him. 

It’s clearly torned out from his sketchbook and he smiles before he even reaches for it.

Come and find me when you wake up x

Little hearts were added all around for good measure and then there’s another message below.

P.S. You’re so fucking hot xxxxx

Snorting, Sander thinks back to yesterday’s afternoon when he showed up to pick Robbe up with his dad’s car so they could meet everyone in Ostend. The way his jaw dropped wide open seeing his brand new look makes him feel very smug at the mere memory.

Right next to the note there’s that piece of confetti he put in Robbe’s long hair at the party, his boyfriend blushing so prettily when Sander told him he couldn’t find a flower as beautiful as him around so the confetti had to do for the time being. 

That’s Sander’s favorite activity: pulling a blush out of him with his sappy lines. Well, maybe after getting lost in their out of this world kisses. Or making love to him, slow and sweet or fast and dirty, Sander’s not picky.

5 minutes and he’s out the door after the quickest shower of his life, minty fresh and ready for a quest to find his other half. It’s still very early, the clock showing a few minutes past eight, and to be honest, Sander wonders how on earth is Robbe up and about already. He was fully preparing for a morning full of Robbe’s moans (not the good kind), cursing him for letting him drink so much and swearing on his life that he’ll never touch alcohol again.

The beach is almost empty, barely a few people lounging on the sand, and it takes him no time to spot longish brown curls flying with the force of the wind. Robbe looks lost to the world around him, sitting cross-legged and leaning back onto his arms, face turned to the sun to catch the early morning rays. A soft smile is dancing on his lips as he takes in the sight of the calm sea stretching till the horizon to the sound of whatever is playing in his headphones (probably Bowie because Robbe has a Master’s degree in his music now, courtesy of Sander Driesen) and he looks the most relaxed Sander has seen him in weeks. He looks beautiful.

And Sander is so so in love with him it hurts.

The boy must’ve sensed his presence because he turns around just when he’s a few meters away, his smile growing wide at the sight of him, squinting a little and wow, how does he look so good after a night like that? Sander wonders whether it’s his lovesick devotion that makes him see Robbe through a filter or if sleep did its job marvellously this time.

“Hey, sleepyhead.” Robbe pulls at his jean jacket to sit him right next to himself and wastes no time before looping his arms around his neck, peppering his lips with good morning kisses.

“Hey, drunkie,” Sander teases once Robbe gets his fit, earning a half-hearted glare and a soft scoff.

“I was not that drunk.”

“You fell asleep on my head while I was carrying your butt to bed.”

“Well your head is very comfy,” Robbe states matter-of-factly, leaving no room for further discussion because he shuts up any snarky comment Sander may have had with another kiss. That’s a-okay with him, and he tangles his hand in Robbe’s gorgeous locks that he will worship till the day he dies, never missing an occasion to bury his fingers in the tangled strands. The other hand joins in the fun, tugging playfully at the earring he’s also a tiny bit too obsessed with and delighting in the high-pitched sound it pulls out of Robbe.

“What are you doing here so early? I thought you’d be dead to the world till at least noon.” Sander makes himself comfy in Robbe’s embrace, leaning against him and playing with Robbe’s long fingers that are resting on his stomach.

The boy huffs a quiet laugh, a warm puff of air tickling Sander’s neck. “I think it’s the sea breeze making me sober up quicker than normally,” he pauses, hand nudging lightly at Sander’s chin to make him lift his head back and meet his eyes, a soft smile on his lips as he continues. “That and also I think that I was less drunk on alcohol and more drunk on love.”

Sander may be the king of sappy lines, but Robbe has a few of his own up in his sleeve, and everytime he pulls one out, it makes him melt into a pile of goo. Sander crashes their lips together in a kiss that’s a little too heavy for a morning in a public space, but hey, they’re drunk on love and he doesn’t care, Robbe doesn’t care either, and there aren’t many people around them anyway so fuck it. He hums into the kiss, Robbe’s tongue grazing the roof of his mouth almost as by accident, and it’s so good, it always is.

“Last night, it felt so... life-changing, you know? And I don’t know why cause not that much is changing, really.”

“You’re graduating high school, it feels big.”

“Yeah, but I’m staying here for uni, I’m not moving or anything. I don’t know, I think I’ve been feeling a little nostalgic lately.” Robbe shrugs like he doesn’t really understand it, but doesn’t want to dwell on it either. There’s a small frown between his eyebrows though so Sander reaches to smooth it out with his thumb.

Then, something comes to his mind. “Maybe it’s because of us?”

Robbe’s frown gets deeper. “What do you mean?”

Sander turns around in his arms, nodding at the surroundings, voice laced with excitement. “You know this is the first time we have been at the beach since we met?”

Brown eyes blink at him in confusion, but then they light up and match Sander’s excitement.

“Oh my god, you’re right! Fuck, it feels like a different lifetime.”

A very miserable, shitty lifetime if you ask Sander. For both of them.

“I was so lonely back then,” Robbe sighs.

Sander notices a tiny shadow of sadness fogging Robbe’s eyes, like it always happens when he thinks back to that period of his life. Some wounds were cut too deep to fully heal, but Sander’s always there to bring him back to the present.

Tugging lightly on his hair to make him look back at him, Sander gives him a lopsided grin.

“Not gonna lie, I’m very pleased this time around the only person that’s allowed to kiss you is me.”

Robbe hums, a smirk brewing on his lips. “Hmm, I don’t know, I wouldn’t say no to a kiss from Jens I think.”

And Sander knows he’s doing it on purpose, absolutely loves to rile him up and play the “Jens” card when he wants to be snogged into submission. Robbe learned early on that even though Sander’s aware he’s just joking, his possessive streak always comes out in situations like this, making their kisses extra good and their sex extra hot.

“Careful now,” Sander breathes against his mouth, the pent up tension that accumulated last night and wasn’t relieved because Robbe was too drunk hitting him hard. It seems to be mutual because Robbe bites his lip seductively, impish smile letting Sander know that he’s getting the exact reaction he was hoping for.

“Or what?”

“Or I’m gonna carry you to bed the way I did last night, but the finale will be a little different.”

Suddenly, Robbe’s smile turns softer, the gear change leaving Sander a bit confused, but he welcomes it with a chuckle when Robbe snuggles close to him, nuzzling into his neck and letting out a content sigh.

“I love you so much,” he murmurs sweetly against his skin, breaking and healing Sander’s heart all at once. 

“I love you too, cutie. In elk universum.” 

A giggle erupts from Robbe at the universe line. “It’s been a while since you said that.”

Sander presses a kiss to his temple. “I think I'm feeling a bit nostalgic too.” 

***

The beach is slowly starting to fill out with people and bursting their little bubble so they get up reluctantly to the sounds of their grumbling stomachs that demand late breakfast. They notice their friends in the distance, spreading a huge blanket on the sand and carrying armfulls of food, and they walk over to them slowly, smiling goofily at each other and swaying their joined hands, paying no mind to people around. 

“Hey, Sander?” Robbe says suddenly.

“Yeah?”

“You’re gonna be dating a college boy now,” Robbe announces, and he sounds so proud and so adorable that Sander has to tease him a little.

He sighs, putting an extra edge of sorrow into it. “I think you’re getting too old for me, Robin.” A choked-off sound of pain follows, Robbe’s mellowy state not stopping him from jabbing his elbow in Sander’s ribs when he’s being a cheeky little shit. He should’ve known better by now - Robbe’s elbows are merciless. 

They arrive at the spot shoving each other playfully until Zoe yells at them to behave and sit their butts down like good boys to eat their food. They dig in without needing to be asked twice, their previous bickering forgotten as Robbe feeds him sandwiches, pretending they’re airplanes and making Sander and everyone around laugh hard.

This, today, yesterday, is a new memory. One that wipes away the angst he used to associate sea and beach with after enviously watching Robbe in the arms of someone else. 

This time, Robbe’s smiles are directed at him, his eyes are constantly seeking out him, hand slides surreptitiously into his hand, and Sander’s heart is bursting with happiness.

They’re going on a roadtrip this summer, just him and his favorite skater boy, and Sander cannot fucking wait. Just like he can’t wait for their future together.

And if there’s a ring sitting in his bottom drawer nobody needs to know for now. 

Robbe will find out in 55 days.