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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

High-Performing Clean Water Production by Rational Design of Functional Solar Evaporator and Vapor Condensation.

Bingxing Wu, Xiangqian Fan, Chaorui Xue, Qing Chang, Jinlong Yang, Shengliang Hu, Haolan Xu

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Bingxing WuResearch Group of New Energy Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Coal and CBM Co-Mining, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, P. R. China.
Xiangqian FanResearch Group of New Energy Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Coal and CBM Co-Mining, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, P. R. China.
Chaorui XueResearch Group of New Energy Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Coal and CBM Co-Mining, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, P. R. China.
Qing ChangResearch Group of New Energy Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Coal and CBM Co-Mining, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, P. R. China.
Jinlong YangResearch Group of New Energy Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Coal and CBM Co-Mining, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, P. R. China.
Shengliang HuResearch Group of New Energy Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Coal and CBM Co-Mining, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, P. R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2838-4072
Haolan XuFuture Industries Institute, UniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, 1067, Australia.

Funding

Australian Research Council DP240101581,DP220100583Project of the Central Government's Funds for Guiding Local Science and Technology Development in Shanxi Province YDZJSX2025D086Science and Technology Innovation Teams of Shanxi Province 202304051001014Scientific and Technological Activities of Returned Overseas Chinese 20240012Shanxi Provincial Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project 2023SJ237Shanxi Scholarship Council of China 2022-136
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Abstract

Interfacial solar evaporation is a promising technology to address the global issue of water scarcity with a minimum carbon footprint. Although solar-to-vapor conversion efficiency has been significantly improved, it does not actually lead to high clean water production due to low vapor condensation efficiency and water collection rate, which hinders real-world applications. Herein, an invert-structured solar evaporation and vapor condensation device coupled with solar evaporators featuring special vertically aligned vapor diffusion channels is designed to target both high evaporation and water collection rates. Graphene oxides, carbon dots, and MXene are used to construct sophisticated nanostructure to effectively confine the thermal energy in the structure for water evaporation. The vertical channels in the evaporators allow downward vapor transportation for condensation. The bottom condenser, made of highly thermal-conductive materials with hydrophobic coating, is cooled by bulk water underneath, accelerating the dropwise condensation processes. In addition, since vapor is pushed downward, light absorption on the top evaporation surface is not declined. Both top and bottom evaporation surfaces are activated for water evaporation. Therefore, this inverted device achieves a record-high water-collection rate of 2.31 kg m

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carbon dotinterfacial solar evaporationinvert‐structured vapor condenserMXenephotothermal conversionreduced graphene oxidewater purification

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