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Quasi-waffle solar distiller for durable desalination of seawater.
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- Bio-Inspired Dual-Gradient Aerogel Enables Sustainable Freshwater Production and Energy Harvesting.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Gill-Inspired Dual-Effect All-Biomass Aerogel Evaporator Overcoming Salt Accumulation for Sustainable Solar Desalination.Nano-micro letters · 2026Article
- Ion Permeation in Zwitterionic Hydrogel for Stable Solar Desalination and Power Generation.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Hierarchically Architected 3D-Printed Hydrogel Evaporators Enable Synergistic Salt Management and Photocatalytic Purification.Nano-micro letters · 2026Article
- Ultrahigh efficiency solar evaporation through orchestrated multiphase flow.Nature communications · 2026Article
- From Structural Design to Molecular Mechanisms: The Evolution of Solar Evaporators.Chem & bio engineering · 2026Review
- Decoupling Transport of Salt Ions and Water in Hierarchically Structured Hydrogel for High Salinity Desalination.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Article
- Adsorption-responsive bionic photothermal ion pump for reversible seawater lithium extraction.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Gel-Based Marangoni Actuators: Mechanisms, Material Designs, Driving Modes, and Cross-Scale Applications.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Cracked Metal-Phenolic Networks with Durable Confinement Capillarity for Enhanced Solar Desalination.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Article
- High-Performance Roller Tube-Shaped Copper Foam Solar Evaporators with Copper Foil Integration for Enhanced Thermal Control.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025Article
- Large-scale 3D printed fouling-resistant self-floating evaporator.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Water purification via interfacial solar steam generation exhibits promising potential. However, salt crystallization on evaporators reduces solar absorption and obstructs water supply. To address it, a waffle-shaped solar evaporator (WSE) has been designed. WSE is fabricated via a zinc-assisted pyrolysis route, combining low-cost biomass carbon sources, recyclable zinc, and die-stamping process. This route enables cost-effective production without the need of sophisticated processing. As compared to conventional plane-shaped evaporators, WSE is featured by extra sidewalls for triggering the convection with the synergistic solute and thermal Marangoni effects. Consequently, WSE achieves spontaneous salt rejection and durable evaporation stability. It has demonstrated continuous operation for more than 60 days in brine without fouling.
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