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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
卷 5, 期 35, 页码 18397-18402出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ta04834c
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- National Science Foundation Environmental Engineering Program [CBET-1604542]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-15-1-0228]
Solar steamgeneration by heat localization is considered to be a highly efficient, sustainable way to alleviate water shortage in resource-limited regions. However, most of the interfacial photothermal evaporators demonstrated so far involve non-biodegradable nanoscale materials, which can quickly pose a significant threat to the environment and ecosystems, especially marine ecosystems, after their disposal. For the first time, a flexible, scalable and, more importantly, completely biodegradable photothermal evaporator for highly efficient solar steamgeneration is introduced. The bilayered evaporator is comprised of bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) densely loaded with polydopamine (PDA) particles during its growth. The biodegradable foam introduced here exhibits large light absorption and photothermal conversion, heat localization, and efficient water transportation, leading to an excellent solar steamgeneration performance under one sun (efficiency of similar to 78%). The novel material and scalable process demonstrated here can be a sustainable solution to alleviate the global water crisis.
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