A lotus-inspired 3D biomimetic design toward an advanced solar steam evaporator with ultrahigh efficiency and remarkable stability-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A lotus-inspired 3D biomimetic design toward an advanced solar steam evaporator with ultrahigh efficiency and remarkable stability

Published:2022 Issue:4 Volume:9 Page:1232-1242
ISSN:2051-6347
Container-title:Materials Horizons
language:en
Short-container-title:Mater. Horiz.

Author:

Zhang Rong¹²,Xiang Bo¹²,Wang Yating¹,Tang Shaochun¹^ORCID,Meng Xiangkang¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China

2. College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, P. R. China

Abstract

Inspired by the natural lotus, a solar interfacial evaporator with a novel 3D biomimetic architecture was developed, which exhibited an extremely high evaporation rate of 3.23 kg·m−2·h−1 and energy efficiency reaching 153.20% under 1-sun.

Funder

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Process Chemistry and Technology,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/MH/D1MH02020J

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