Journal
CHINESE CHEMICAL LETTERS
Volume 31, Issue 9, Pages 2159-2166Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2019.09.030
Keywords
Solar vapor generation; Plasmonic effect; Optical adjustment; Solar selective absorption surface; Interfacial evaporation
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51562020, 51575253]
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Access to safe drinking water has become an extremely urgent research topic worldwide. In recent years, the technology of solar vapor generation has been extensively explored as a potential and effective strategy of transforming elements content in seawater. In this review, the basic concepts and theories of metal-based photothermal vapor generation device (PVGD) with excellent optical and thermal regulatory are introduced. In the view of optical regulation, how to achieve high-efficiency localized evaporation in different evaporation system (i.e., volumetric solar heating and interface solar heating) is discussed; from the aspect of thermal regulation, the importance of selective absorption surface for interfacial PVGD is analyzed. Based on the above discussion and analysis, we summarize the challenges of metal-based desalination device. (C) 2019 Chinese Chemical Society and Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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