Advancing Efficiency in Solar-Driven Interfacial Evaporation: Strategies and Applications DOI
Lanlan Hou, Shuai Li,

Yingqun Qi

et al.

ACS Nano, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 8, 2025

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) has emerged as a promising technology for addressing global water scarcity by utilizing solar-thermal conversion and at the air/material/water interface. The exceptional performance of these systems attracted significant interest; it is imperative to establish rigorous scientific standards evaluating effectiveness, optimizing system design, ensuring efficient practical applications. In this Review, we propose consensus criteria accurately assessing guiding future advancements. We then explore fundamental mechanisms driving synergy, emphasizing how material compositions, microscopic hierarchical structures, macroscopic three-dimensional spatial architecture designs enhance solar absorption photothermal conversion; balance heat confinement with pathway optimization; manage salt resistance; regulate enthalpy during vaporization. These matched coordination strategies are crucial maximizing target SDIE efficiency. Additionally, investigate applications technologies, focusing on cutting-edge progress versatile purification, combined atmospheric harvesting, collection, electric generation, deicing. Finally, highlight challenges exciting opportunities advancing research, efforts integrate principles, system-level collaboration, application-driven approaches boost sustainable highly energy technologies. By linking evaluation optimization influencing factors, offer comprehensive overview field outlook that promotes clean production synergistic

Language: Английский

High‐Efficiency Water Collection of Superhydrophobic Condensation Absorber DOI Creative Commons
Defeng Yan, Junyi Lin, Yang Chen

et al.

Advanced Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 10, 2025

The atmosphere contains ≈1.3 billion tons vapor that can be condensed to obtain water, which has the promise of alleviating water crisis. However, droplets are difficult shed from condensation surface means a low refreshing frequency, showing collection rate and efficiency. Here, this limitation is successfully overcome by proposing novel superhydrophobic absorber (SCA). All surfaces SCA but covered with series superhydrophilic through pores points enabled rapid droplet nucleation capability. whole processes exhibit extremely small shedding volume highly frequent refreshing, 0.00003 1.1× 106 times existing method, respectively. superior than methods, reaching 80 mg cm-2 h-1 at subcooling temperature only 10 °C. In addition, collected clean without any contaminant. This high-efficiency eco-friendly method will maximize acquisition atmosphere, strong implication for people suffering freshwater

Language: Английский

Citations

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Advancing Efficiency in Solar-Driven Interfacial Evaporation: Strategies and Applications DOI
Lanlan Hou, Shuai Li,

Yingqun Qi

et al.

ACS Nano, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 8, 2025

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) has emerged as a promising technology for addressing global water scarcity by utilizing solar-thermal conversion and at the air/material/water interface. The exceptional performance of these systems attracted significant interest; it is imperative to establish rigorous scientific standards evaluating effectiveness, optimizing system design, ensuring efficient practical applications. In this Review, we propose consensus criteria accurately assessing guiding future advancements. We then explore fundamental mechanisms driving synergy, emphasizing how material compositions, microscopic hierarchical structures, macroscopic three-dimensional spatial architecture designs enhance solar absorption photothermal conversion; balance heat confinement with pathway optimization; manage salt resistance; regulate enthalpy during vaporization. These matched coordination strategies are crucial maximizing target SDIE efficiency. Additionally, investigate applications technologies, focusing on cutting-edge progress versatile purification, combined atmospheric harvesting, collection, electric generation, deicing. Finally, highlight challenges exciting opportunities advancing research, efforts integrate principles, system-level collaboration, application-driven approaches boost sustainable highly energy technologies. By linking evaluation optimization influencing factors, offer comprehensive overview field outlook that promotes clean production synergistic

Language: Английский

Citations

1