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30-10-2023 | Composites & nanocomposites

Boosting clean water evaporation and sustainable water treatment by photothermally induced artificial system

Authors: Shi Wang, Chenyang Dang, Mengli Li, Li Gu, Jun Wu, Xuebo Cao

Published in: Journal of Materials Science | Issue 41/2023

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Efficiently harnessing abundant and renewable solar energy for sustainable and continuous municipal sewage or industrial outlet water treatment to deal with water crisis has been an urgency for researchers in the past decades. Herein, a scalable and cost-effective solar steam device built up of surface-carbonized cane (CC) and Bi₂WO₆ nanoflower photocatalyst is demonstrated, which exhibits high efficiency for concurrent waste water treatment and solar-to-water evaporation. CC is chosen as artificial core component in this system due to its nature-made periodic micro-/nanochannels, low heat conductivity, which contributes to extraordinary water transport, evaporation capacity and thermal management. Compared to natural cane, CC exhibits remarkably enhanced light absorption capacity and solar-to-water evaporation efficiency. Moreover, through the modification of Bi₂WO₆ nanoflower, the system shows an optimized utilization of absorbed photons for high redox charge carriers in photocatalytic degradation and heat generation to promote the water treatment, leading to enhanced pollutant degradation efficiency. The steam generation performance reaches up to 1.417 kg·m⁻²·h⁻¹ and solar-to-water evaporation efficiency of ~ 91.7% under 1 sun irradiation, which are among the highest values in the literatures. Continuous water purification and freshwater production from municipal sewage are also carried out in a home-made tandem system.

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Title: Boosting clean water evaporation and sustainable water treatment by photothermally induced artificial system
Authors: Shi Wang
Chenyang Dang
Mengli Li
Li Gu
Jun Wu
Xuebo Cao
Publication date: 30-10-2023
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Materials Science / Issue 41/2023
Print ISSN: 0022-2461
Electronic ISSN: 1573-4803
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-023-09029-7

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