ArticleNature communications2024
Sustainable biomimetic solar distillation with edge crystallization for passive salt collection and zero brine discharge.
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- Asymmetric tapered multistage solar still with optimized mass transfer equilibrium for ultrahigh water production.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Interfacial solar evaporation transforms brine mineral recovery.Science advances · 2025Review
- Cost Effective Photothermal Materials Selection for Direct Solar-Driven Evaporation.ACS omega · 2024Review
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Abstract
The urgency of addressing water scarcity and exponential population rise has necessitated the use of sustainable desalination for clean water production, while conventional thermal desalination processes consume fossil fuel with brine rejection. As a promising solution to sustainable solar thermal distillation, we report a scalable mangrove-mimicked device for direct solar vapor generation and passive salt collection without brine discharge. Capillarity-driven salty water supply and continuous vapor generation are ensured by anti-corrosion porous wicking stem and multi-layer leaves, which are made of low-cost superhydrophilic nanostructured titanium meshes. Precipitated salt at the leaf edge forms porous patch during daytime evaporation and get peeled by gravity during night when saline water rewets the leaves, and these salt patches can enhance vaporization by 1.6 times as indicated by our findings. The proposed solar vapor generator achieves a stable photothermal efficiency around 94% under one sun when treating synthetic seawater with a salinity of 3.5 wt.%. Under outdoor conditions, it can produce 2.2 L m
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