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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Guan, Qing-Fang
• Han, Zi-Meng
• Ling, Zhang-Chi
• Yang, Huai-Bin
• Yu, Shu-Hong

Titel

Sustainable Wood-Based Hierarchical Solar Steam Generator: A Biomimetic Design with Reduced Vaporization Enthalpy of Water

Ist Teil von

• Nano letters, 2020-08, Vol.20 (8), p.5699-5704

Ort / Verlag

American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Water purification by solar distillation is considered a promising technology for producing clean water from undrinkable water resources. A solar steam generator is a central part of a solar distillation process to separate water and contaminants. Here, we report an efficient and sustainable hierarchical solar steam generator (HSSG) with reduced vaporization enthalpy based on bacterial cellulose (BC) nanocomposites. The nanomaterials are assembled with BC nanofibers produced by bacteria in situ to form nanocomposites. Using this method, we construct functional BC nanocomposites inside and on the natural porous structure of wood. Our HSSG integrates solar-to-vapor efficiency improvement and vaporization enthalpy reduction by integrating the hierarchical multifunctional BC nanocomposites with the natural porous structure of wood. Because of the biomimetic design, hierarchical structure and reduced vaporization enthalpy of HSSG, a high evaporation rate of 2.9 kg m–2 h–1 and solar-to-vapor efficiency of 80% is achieved.