Journal
SMALL
Volume 15, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201900354
Keywords
anisotropic heat conductivity; efficient solar vapor generation; hierarchical porous carbon membrane; low salt deposition; PSS@HKUST-1; SWCNT composite membrane
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC21671171, 21875212, 51632008]
- National Key Research and Development Program [2016YFA0200204]
- Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation [LD18E02001]
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Interfacial solar vapor generation is considered to be an efficient and eco-friendly technology for harvesting solar energy and providing freshwater. However, the efficient and long-term steady evaporation of seawater under 1 sun becomes a critical issue when it comes to practical applications. Based on this issue, a special double-layer structure, which contains a metal-organic-framework-derived hierarchical porous carbon membrane (HPCM) for solar absorption and a polystyrene sulfonate (PSS)@Cu-3(BTC)(3)center dot 3H(2)O (HKUST-1)/single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) (PHS) membrane for water supply and salt blocking, is designed in this work. The converted heat is utilized efficiently in situ to drive the evaporation of water-trapped HPCM. The PHS membrane with PSS modified channels successfully prevents the deposition of salt. Due to the synergistic combination of the HPCM and PHS membranes, the device exhibits a remarkably high water evaporation rate of 1.38 kg m(-2) h(-1) and solar-vapor generation efficiency of 90.8% under 1 sun.
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