Solar-driven interfacial evaporation: materials design and device assembly

Energy Materials, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 4(2)

Опубликована: Март 15, 2024

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SIE) is an emerging research topic that gaining attention due to its potential in addressing global water scarcity issues. This review provides a comprehensive overview of base materials, recent innovations photothermal materials and the design evaporators for effective desalination purification. The development SIE meticulously discussed, providing deep understanding key performance indicators state-of-the-art materials. Additionally, this examines novel strategies have been reported literature enhancing efficiency scalability systems. These involve using exploring innovative device configurations. Finally, we discuss existing challenges future directions, emphasizing contributing sustainable future.

Язык: Английский

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Numerical Simulation Technologies in Solar‐Driven Interfacial Evaporation Processes

Small, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 20(32)

Опубликована: Март 20, 2024

Abstract Solar interfacial evaporation technology has the advantages of environmentally conscious and sustainable benefits. Recent research on light absorption, water transportation, thermal management improved performance solar evaporators. However, many studies photothermal materials structures only aim to improve performance, neglecting explanations for heat mass transfer coupling or providing evidence enhancement. Numerical simulation can simulate diffusion paths processes understand mechanism, thereby better achieving design efficient Therefore, this review summarizes latest exciting findings tremendous advances in numerical evaporation. First, it presents a macroscopic summary application temperature distribution, salt concentration vapor flux distribution during Second, utilization microscopic is summed up, specifically focusing movement molecules mechanisms responses Finally, all methods have goal validating physical It hoped that use provide theoretical guidance technical support solar‐driven technology.

Язык: Английский

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Tortuosity Engineering of Water Channels to Customized Water Supply for Enhancing Hydrogel Solar Evaporation

Small, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Июнь 10, 2024

Hydrogel as a solar evaporator shows great potential in freshwater production. However, hydrogels often lead to an imbalance between energy input and water supply management due their excessively high saturated content. Thus, achieving stable water-energy-balance hydrogel evaporators remains challenging. Here, by tortuosity engineering designed transport channels, seamless high-tortuosity/low-tortuosity/high-tortuosity structured (SHLH structure hydrogel) is developed, which enables the with customized rate, leading controlled at interface. An excellent equilibrium photothermal conversion established, maximum utilization of realized, thereby evaporation rate 3.64 kg m

Язык: Английский

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Superhydrophobic sand evaporator with core-shell structure for long-term salt-resistant solar desalination

Water Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 253, С. 121290 - 121290

Опубликована: Фев. 8, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Sunflower-inspired hydrogel evaporator with mutual reinforcement of evaporation and photodegradation for integrated water management

Chemical Engineering Journal, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 490, С. 151550 - 151550

Опубликована: Апрель 23, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Hydrogels in solar-driven water and energy production: Recent advances and future perspectives

Chemical Engineering Journal, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 492, С. 152303 - 152303

Опубликована: Май 16, 2024

Hydrogels are emerging as an ideal platform for sustainable water and energy nexuses due to their low-cost, ease of processing, versatile functions, unique structural networks, high adaptability. The establishment a solar-thermal-electricity system assumes critical importance in achieving effective solar utilization. This review focuses on recent advances hydrogel-enabled steam generation (SGG) atmospheric harvesting (AWH) systems discuss extended applications renewable energy, such thermal-electricity green hydrogen generation. Furthermore, advanced material development various engineering strategies proposed enhance efficiency, taking into account the fundamental structure–property-application relationships (SPAR). Finally, research challenges future opportunities studies industrial implementation hydrogel-based freshwater put forward.

Язык: Английский

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A fiber-based sandwich evaporator for effective solar evaporation and salt-rejection performance

Desalination, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 577, С. 117416 - 117416

Опубликована: Фев. 15, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Unlocking Zero Liquid Discharge: A Parallel Water Supply Strategy to Realize Selective Salt Crystallization for Long‐Term Interfacial Solar Evaporation

Advanced Functional Materials, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 2, 2025

Abstract Interfacial solar evaporation offers a green and sustainable solution to solve clean water shortages via solar‐driven desalination. However, salt crystallization accumulation on evaporators have become the primary hindrances long‐term practical application of interfacial technology. To tackle this challenge, photothermal evaporator with novel parallel two‐water paths strategy is developed in study. Unlike conventional one‐way path, which generally leads at supply end surfaces, thereby limiting lifespan compromising performance, here, second ion diffusion distribution within reconfigured optimized. No occurs either surfaces or paths, eliminating impact performance enabling convenient collection. A high stable rate 3.09–3.26 kg m −2 h −1 recorded over 84 continuous NaCl (3.5 wt.%) without evaporator, making it an ideal for zero liquid discharge evaporation.

Язык: Английский

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Biomimetic Micro-Nanostructured Evaporator with Dual-Transition-Metal MXene for Efficient Solar Steam Generation and Multifunctional Salt Harvesting

Nano-Micro Letters, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 17(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 6, 2025

Abstract Solar-driven interfacial evaporation is one of the most attractive approaches to addressing global freshwater shortage. However, achieving an integrated high rate, salt harvesting, and multifunctionality in evaporator still a crucial challenge. Here, novel composite membrane with biomimetic micro-nanostructured superhydrophobic surface designed via ultrafast laser etching technology. Attractively, double‐transition‐metal (V 1/2 Mo ) 2 CT x MXene nanomaterials as photothermal layer, exhibiting enhanced conversion performance due elevated joint densities states, which enables populations photoexcited carrier relaxation heat release, provides new insight into mechanism for multiple principal element MXene. Hence, MXene-200 can achieve rate 2.23 kg m −2 h −1 under sun, owing “light trap” effect, conversion, high-throughput water transfer. Synergetically, induce directed precipitation at edge, thus enabling harvesting recycling zero-emission brine water. Moreover, endowed excellent anti‐/de‐icing, anti-fouling, antibacterial, overcoming disadvantage that versatility difficult be compatible. Therefore, promising strategy hold great potential practical application solar evaporation.

Язык: Английский

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Modulating hydration chemistry of GO/CSH antibacterial hydrogel evaporator toward high-efficiency solar-driven interfacial desalination

Desalination, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 118731 - 118731

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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