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ArticleNature communications2025

Spatially regulated water-heat transport by fluidic diode membrane for efficient solar-powered desalination and electricity generation.

Yuanhang Cao, Jiemin Wang, Weixin Guan, Meng An, Peng Yan, Zhengtong Li, Changsheng Zhao, Guihua Yu

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Article in Nature communications, 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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8 authors.

Yuanhang Cao *College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Jiemin Wang *College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. jiemin@scu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0976-5734
Weixin GuanMaterials Science and Engineering Program and Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3779-6308
Meng AnYangtze Delta Region Academy in Jiaxing, Beijing Institute of Technology, JiaXing, China. anmeng@photon.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1560-7329
Peng YanCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China.
Zhengtong LiState Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4916-0924
Changsheng ZhaoCollege of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. zhaochsh70@scu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4619-3499
Guihua YuMaterials Science and Engineering Program and Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. ghyu@austin.utexas.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3253-0749

Funding

Welch Foundation F-1861
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interfacial solar-driven evaporation has attracted great research interests, given its high conversion efficiency of solar energy and transformative industrial potential for desalination. However, current evaporators with porous volume remain critical challenges by inherently balancing efficient fluid transport and effective heat localization. Herein, we propose the strategy and design of lightweight, flexible and monolayered fluidic diode membrane-based evaporators, featuring regularly arrayed macropores and dense nanopores on each side. Such a delicate microstructure offers universality in establishing asymmetric channels along macroporous-to-nanoporous to enable the diode-like directional water transport as well as facilitate the heat localization on the nanopores side. Consequently, a high evaporation rate of a maximum 3.82 kg m

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