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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025

Synergizing Plasmonic Local Heating and 3D Nanostructures to Boost the Solar-to-Vapor Efficiency Beyond 100.

Pengfei Cheng, Malte Klingenhof, Hauke Honig, Lei Zhang, Peter Strasser, Peter Schaaf, Dangyuan Lei, Dong Wang

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Pengfei ChengChair Materials for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Micro and Nanotechnologies MacroNano, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 5, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2848-8891
Malte KlingenhofThe Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin, 10623, Berlin, Germany.
Hauke HonigChair Materials for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Micro and Nanotechnologies MacroNano, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 5, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany.
Lei ZhangKey Laboratory of Physical Electronics and Devices of Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, P. R. China.
Peter StrasserThe Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin, 10623, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3884-436X
Peter SchaafChair Materials for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Micro and Nanotechnologies MacroNano, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 5, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8802-6621
Dangyuan LeiDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Centre for Functional Photonics, Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Centre, and Hong Kong Institute of Clean Energy, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8963-0193
Dong WangChair Materials for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Micro and Nanotechnologies MacroNano, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 5, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5940-9538

Funding

Center of Micro- and Nanotechnologies RI_00009China Scholarship CouncilFederal Ministry for Education and Research 03HY108DFederal Ministry for Education and Research 03HY3002QFederal Ministry for Education and Research 03SF0613DResearch Grants Council of Hong Kong through a Collaborative Research Equipment C1015-21EF
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Solving the global challenge of freshwater scarcity is of great significance for over one billion people in the world. Solar water evaporation based on plasmonic nanostructures is one of the most promising technologies due to its high efficiency. However, the efficiency of this plasmonic nanostructure-based technology can hardly achieve 100%. Therefore, it is highly desired to develop new solar converters utilizing plasmonic local heating and reasonable structure design to break the limit of solar-to-vapor efficiency for freshwater production. Here, a plasmonic sponge is developed as a solar evaporation converter with excellent full-solar-spectrum absorption, good heat localization performance, and fast evaporation kinetics through 3D nanostructures, achieving a 131% solar-to-vapor efficiency. Distinct from the traditional 2D localized heating-based evaporation and nonmetallic 3D water evaporation, the 3D plasmonic sponge can simultaneously achieve highly efficient local heating and super large water-air interfaces for boosting solar-to-vapor efficiency. The 3D plasmonic sponge can be also used as a universal converter for purifying seawater, metal ion solutions, organic pollutant solutions, and strong acid and strong alkaline solutions. The full-solar-spectrum absorption, high efficiency, and universality in water purification suggest that the novel 3D plasmonic solar converter can bring a significant way to alleviate the crisis of freshwater resources.

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3D plasmonic spongenanostructured water–air interfaceplasmonic local heatingsolar‐to‐vapor efficiencysolar water purification

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PMID39632702
PMCPMC11795728

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