期刊
SMALL
卷 18, 期 17, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202200175
关键词
micro-nanostructures; photothermal deicing; polyethylene; graphene nanosheets (PE; GNs) foam; solar evaporation; superhydrophobicity
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52103031, 22102059, 52073107, 51903099]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2020YFB1709304]
- Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China [2020M672340]
- Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities [2021XXJS036]
- Opening Project of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Technique and Equipment for Macromolecular Advanced Manufacturing, South China University of Technology, China [2021kfkt05]
A new method using polymer molding is proposed to fabricate lightweight polyethylene/graphene nanosheets foam with a micro-nanostructured surface, providing self-cleaning, anti-icing, and photothermal deicing properties. As a self-floating solar evaporator, the foam exhibits excellent evaporation rate and salt rejecting performance.
Solar evaporation is one of the most attractive and sustainable approaches to address worldwide freshwater scarcity. Unfortunately, it is still a crucial challenge that needs to be confronted when the solar evaporator faces harsh application environments. Herein, a promising polymer molding method that combines melt blending and compression molding, namely micro extrusion compression molding, is proposed for the cost-effective fabrication of lightweight polyethylene/graphene nanosheets (PE/GNs) foam with interconnected vapor escape channels and surface micro-nanostructures. A contact angle of 155 +/- 2 degrees, a rolling angle of 5 +/- 1 degrees and reflectance of approximate to 1.6% in the wavelength range of 300-2500 nm appears on the micro-nanostructured PE/GNs foam surface. More interestingly, the micro-nanostructured PE/GNs foam surface can maintain a robust superhydrophobic state under dynamic impacting, high temperature and acid-/alkali solutions. These results mean that the micro-nanostructured PE/GNs foam surface possesses self-cleaning, anti-icing and photothermal deicing properties at the same time. Importantly, the foam exhibits an evaporation rate of 1.83 kg m(-2) h(-1) under 1 Sun illumination and excellent salt rejecting performance when it is used as a self-floating solar evaporator. The proposed method provides an ideal and industrialized approach for the mass production of solar evaporators suitable for practical application environments.
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