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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2020-06-24

发表刊物：ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES

收录刊物：SCIE

卷号：12

期号：25

页面范围：28179-28187

ISSN号：1944-8244

关键字：wood-derived aerogel; solar desalination; flexible; long-term stability; mildew-resistant

摘要：Interfacial solar-driven evaporation is an effective and sustainable approach to convert solar energy to heat for desalination. However, maintaining a rapid evaporation rate and long-term stability is a critical challenge that needs to be addressed urgently to facilitate practical applications of this technology. Here, taking advantage of the inherent porosity, wettability, and low thermal conductivity of wood, we develop a flexible and mildew-resistant aerogel derived from natural wood as the substrate of evaporators for stable and efficient solar desalination. The wood-derived aerogel not only possesses good hydrophilicity, low thermal conductivity, and light weight, which are favorable to realize heat localization and efficient water evaporation, but also avoids fragility and mildew problems that seriously restricted long-term stability of wood-based evaporators. With high absorbance (>95%) of Au-rGO coating, the evaporator showed a high solar to vapor efficiency of 90.1% and an evaporation rate of 1.394 kg m(-2) h(-1) under 1 sun. During 120 h desalination, the evaporator transports brine for evaporation in the day and achieves dissolution of salt residues in the night, exhibiting a repetitive self-cleaning behavior, which enables the recovery of desalination stability. The multiple functionalities of the wood-derived aerogel make the evaporator promising as an attractive device for stable and continuous solar desalination.