A review on photothermal material and its usage in the development of photothermal membrane for sustainable clean water production

Fuzil, Nurul Syazana; Othman, Nur Hidayati; Alias, Nur Hashimah; Marpani, Fauziah; Othman, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan; Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi; Lau, Woei Jye; Li, Kang; Kusworo, Tutuk Djoko; Ichinose, Izumi; Shirazi, Mohammad Mahdi A.

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2021.115259

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“…Various innovative technologies are being explored by researchers to meet this global challenge. These include graphene-based membranes [9], nanofiltration (NF) [10], nano adsorbent chillers [11], and solar-driven evaporation [12,13]. These emerging technologies are capable of converting waste heat into useful products in low-temperature conditions in remote sensing areas.…”

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Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Deposited over Self-Floating Facial Sponge for Facile Interfacial Seawater Solar Desalination

Arshad

Shamim

et al. 2021

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A facile approach for developing an interfacial solar evaporator by heat localization of solar-thermal energy conversion at water-air liquid composed by in-situ polymerization of Fe2O3 nanoparticles (Fe2O3@PPy) deposited over a facial sponge is proposed. The demonstrated system consists of a floating solar receiver having a vertically cross-linked microchannel for wicking up saline water. The in situ polymerized Fe2O3@PPy interfacial layer promotes diffuse reflection and its rough black surface allows Omni-directional solar absorption (94%) and facilitates efficient thermal localization at the water/air interface and offers a defect-rich surface to promote heat localization (41.9 °C) and excellent thermal management due to cellulosic content. The self-floating composite foam reveals continuous vapors generation at a rate of 1.52 kg m−2 h−1 under one 1 kW m−2 and profound evaporating efficiency (95%) without heat losses that dissipates in its surroundings. Indeed, long-term evaporation experiments reveal the negligible disparity in continuous evaporation rate (33.84 kg m−2/8.3 h) receiving two sun solar intensity, and ensures the stability of the device under intense seawater conditions synchronized with excellent salt rejection potential. More importantly, Raman spectroscopy investigation validates the orange dye rejection via Fe2O3@PPy solar evaporator. The combined advantages of high efficiency, self-floating capability, multimedia rejection, low cost, and this configuration are promising for producing large-scale solar steam generating systems appropriate for commercial clean water yield due to their scalable fabrication.

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Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Deposited over Self-Floating Facial Sponge for Facile Interfacial Seawater Solar Desalination

Arshad

Shamim

et al. 2021

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“…Thus, the stable open‐shell radicals showed excellent solar‐driven desalination performance and promising practical application potential in the future [1i, 3c,d, 6, 9c] . Photothermal materials can convert absorbed light into heat through a nonradiative relaxation process and have promising practical application potential in photothermal tumor therapy, photoacoustic imaging, solar‐driven water evaporation, and photothermal degradation [3c, 6, 28] . The requirements of photothermal materials are different in various photothermal conversion applications, and higher conversion temperature may not necessarily obtain better performance in different fields.…”

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Accessing Highly Efficient Photothermal Conversion with Stable Open‐Shell Aromatic Nitric Acid Radicals

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It is very challenging to prepare stable radicals as they are usually thermodynamically or kinetically unstable in air. Herein, a series of star-shaped aromatic nitric acid radicals were prepared via facile demethylation and consequent oxidation. As phenol radicals without steric hindrance group protection, they exhibit high electrochemical and thermal stability due to their rich resonance structures including closed-shell nitro-like and open-shell nitroxide structure with unpaired electrons delocalized in conjugated backbones. Among them, TPA-TPA-O 6 powder exhibited extremely wide absorption from 300 to 2000 nm covering the whole solar spectral irradiance, high photothermal conversion efficiency, and negligible photobleaching effect in seawater desalination. Under the irradiation of one sunlight, the water evaporation efficiency of TPA-TPA-O 6 is recorded to be as high as 89.41 % and the water evaporation rate is 1.293 kg m À 2 h À 1 , which represents the top performance in pure organic small molecule photothermal materials.

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“…Especially recently, solar-driven interfacial water evaporation has become one of the research hotspots because this evaporation can cause heating to occur at the water–air interface, minimizing heat dissipation in the bulk water and improving the evaporation efficiency. 167 A solar-driven evaporator is typically composed of a photothermal layer with high light absorption and high photothermal conversion, 168,169 and a supporting layer with low thermal conductivity and efficient water transportation. 167,170,171 It was mentioned in the previous chapter that cellulose-based paper has been regarded as an option for the supporting layer, which is attributed to its natural characters, meeting the requirements of the support layer, such as porous network and hydrophilicity for fast water transportation, low thermal conductivity to reduce heat loss, biocompatibility and environmentally friendly nature.…”

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The gorgeous transformation of paper: from cellulose paper to inorganic paper to 2D paper materials with multifunctional properties

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Guo

2022

J. Mater. Chem. A

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A review on photothermal material and its usage in the development of photothermal membrane for sustainable clean water production

Cited by 145 publications

References 136 publications

Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Deposited over Self-Floating Facial Sponge for Facile Interfacial Seawater Solar Desalination

Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Deposited over Self-Floating Facial Sponge for Facile Interfacial Seawater Solar Desalination

Accessing Highly Efficient Photothermal Conversion with Stable Open‐Shell Aromatic Nitric Acid Radicals

The gorgeous transformation of paper: from cellulose paper to inorganic paper to 2D paper materials with multifunctional properties

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