ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2025
Mineral Scaling in 3D Interfacial Solar Evaporators─A Challenge for Brine Treatment and Lithium Recovery.
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- Cellulose Fiber Crystallizer for Continuous Evaporative Lithium Enrichment from Low-Quality Brines.ACS ES&T water · 2026Article
- The Water Behavior Chain: A Unified Framework for Solar Interfacial Evaporation.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Review
- A dual membrane-adsorption evaporator for solar-powered lithium extraction from complex brines.Science advances · 2026Article
- Simple mass transfer regulation achieves scaling-free zero liquid discharge of seawater desalination brine without chemical additive.Science advances · 2026Article
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Abstract
In this work, we analyzed the effects of mineral scaling on the performance of a 3D interfacial solar evaporator, with a focus on the cations relevant to lithium recovery from brackish water. The field has been rapidly moving toward resource recovery applications from brines with higher cation concentrations. However, the potential complications caused by common minerals in these brines other than NaCl have been largely overlooked. Therefore, in this study, we thoroughly examined the effects of two common cations (calcium and magnesium) on the long-term solar evaporation performance of a 3D graphene oxide stalk. The 3D stalk can achieve an evaporation flux as high as 17.8 kg m
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