A Self‐Adaptive and Regenerable Hydrogel Interfacial Evaporator with Adjustable Evaporation Area for Solar Water Purification

Author:

Liu Yue1,Tian Ye1,Liu Na1,Zhao Shuaiheng1,Zhai Huajun1,Ji Jiujiang1,Cao Wenqing1,Tao Lei1,Wei Yen1,Feng Lin1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare Earth Materials (Ministry of Education) Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 P. R. China

Abstract

AbstractSolar‐driven interfacial evaporation is a potential water purification solution. Here, a novel regenerable hydrogel interfacial evaporator is designed with tunable water production. Such an evaporator is fabricated by readily mixing hydroxypropyl chitosan (HPCS) and dibenzaldehyde‐functional poly(ethylene glycol) (DF‐PEG) at ambient conditions. Dynamic Schiff base bonds bestow on the HPCS/DF‐PEG hydrogel (HDH) evaporator self‐adaptivity and pH responsiveness. The as‐prepared HDH is enabled to spontaneously change shape to adapt to different molds, endowing the evaporator with adjustable evaporation area. The water production performance of the intelligent evaporator is first evaluated using tunable evaporation index (TEI, the tunable evaporated water mass per hour), which can be altered from 0 kg h−1 to 3.21 kg h−1 under one sun. Besides, the large‐scale evaporator can be expediently fabricated by virtue of the self‐adaptivity. Benefiting from the pH responsiveness, the HDH evaporator is successfully regenerated with the removal of organic dye by the liquefaction‐dialysis‐regeneration operations. Meanwhile, the re‐created evaporator maintains the self‐adaptive characteristic and almost constant water evaporation rate compared to that of the initial evaporator. Therefore, this distinctive concept provides a facile strategy to develop smart and recyclable solar‐driven interfacial evaporators for flexible water purification.

Funder

National Key Research and Development Program of China

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Biomaterials,Biotechnology,General Materials Science,General Chemistry

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