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19-03-2024 | Chemical routes to materials

Preparation of rGO @SA/CNF-doped copper composite aerogels and their solar-driven interfacial evaporation properties in water purification

Authors: Jiajia Gui, Yixiang Chen, Wei Wang, Dan Yu

Published in: Journal of Materials Science | Issue 13/2024

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Solar-driven interfacial evaporation is a sustainable and green desalination method with great prospects for development in today’s severe water shortage problem. In this paper, a novel composite aerogel was prepared by hydrothermal method with sodium alginate (SA) and Cu²⁺ in the preparation process using reduced graphene oxide as photothermal material and cellulose nanofibers as substrate. The good hydrophilicity of nanocellulose makes the composite aerogel have strong capillary action and continuous water transport. The gel formed by ion exchange between SA and Cu²⁺ greatly improves dry and wet mechanical strength of the composite aerogel and ensures the stability of the evaporator for multiple recycling. Copper is doped by reduction of copper ion complexes and reduced graphene oxide have a synergistic effect to increase the photothermal response rate of the composite aerogel of 1.446 kg m⁻² h⁻¹ with evaporation efficiency of 84.87% under one standard solar irradiation. In addition, the purification of heavy metal ions, dye wastewater as well as acid and alkali solutions also has excellent results. It is expected that this study will provide some new ideas for the fields of seawater desalination and wastewater treatment.

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Title: Preparation of rGO @SA/CNF-doped copper composite aerogels and their solar-driven interfacial evaporation properties in water purification
Authors: Jiajia Gui
Yixiang Chen
Wei Wang
Dan Yu
Publication date: 19-03-2024
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Materials Science / Issue 13/2024
Print ISSN: 0022-2461
Electronic ISSN: 1573-4803
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-024-09484-w

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