Highly efficient three-dimensional solar evaporator for high salinity desalination by localized crystallization

Solar-driven water evaporation technology still faces main challenges of limited efficiency and salt fouling. Here the authors achieve high energy efficiency and evaporation rate under high salinity through an energy reutilizing strategy based on interfacial water film inhomogeneity on a biomimetic...

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Main Authors: Lei Wu, Zhichao Dong, Zheren Cai, Turga Ganapathy, Niocholas X. Fang, Chuxin Li, Cunlong Yu, Yu Zhang, Yanlin Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14366-1
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Summary:Solar-driven water evaporation technology still faces main challenges of limited efficiency and salt fouling. Here the authors achieve high energy efficiency and evaporation rate under high salinity through an energy reutilizing strategy based on interfacial water film inhomogeneity on a biomimetic structure.
ISSN:2041-1723