A smart roof that transforms raindrops into agricultural spraying.

Tao ShenCan GaoXi-le DengShijie LiuZhuoxing LiuJia PengJie MaLianyang BaiLei Jiang Zhichao Dong

Published in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2024)

We present a smart roof that makes fragmented droplets from the impact of raindrops on superhydrophobic meshes and utilizes the droplets for agricultural spraying. This facile method transforms raindrops or waterdrops into uniform microdroplets, which can both reduce crop lodging induced by heavy rainfall, and realize uniform spraying of pesticides.

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