A self-floating and integrated bionic mushroom for highly efficient solar steam generation

Wang, Chenjie; Wang, Ying; Guan, Wei; Wang, Peng; Feng, Jianguang; Song, Na; Dong, Hua; Yu, Liyan; Sui, Lina; Gan, Zhixing; Dong, Lifeng

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2021.12.064

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“…In addition, we presented a superiority comparison evaluation with an optimization level of more than 1.35 times between bioinspired design of solar absorber in this work (BWS) and current bionic design reports (e.g., butterfly scales, mushroom, nepenthes, leaf, duckweed) (Figure 4f ). [45][46][47][48][49][50][51] 2.5. Seawater Desalination Capability of the Bionic Wood Cribs Structure Evaporator After investigation, the feasibility of taking advantage of BWS evaporators to serve solar seawater desalination is further explored.…”

Section: Efficient Solar Evaporation Performance Of the Bionic Wood C...mentioning

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High‐Yield, Green, and Scalable Solar‐Powered Interfacial Evaporation of Multibioinspired Hierarchical‐Integrated Nanofibrous Wood Surface with Sustainable Steam Escape

Zhang

et al. 2023

Solar RRL

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Solar‐powered interfacial evaporation offers a cost‐effective technique for freshwater scarcity in arid areas. However, further performance improvements have encountered bottlenecks due to the lack of more simplified material design and optimized functional structures resulting in a trade‐off between photothermal conversion and steam transport. Herein, a high‐yield, green, and scalable solar‐driven evaporator with multibioinspired hierarchical‐integrated architecture‐modified wood surface via highly oriented nanofibers is developed. Furthermore, inspired by natural biological structures, a 3D bionic wood cribs structure (BWS) evaporator on the basis of 2D bionic butterfly scales structure (BS) with efficient light absorption, light‐to‐heat conversion, evaporation rate, as well as recyclable steam escape is integrally fabricated. As a result, this well‐designed BWS evaporator shows a high solar absorption of 96%, and a greatly promoted evaporation rate of 1.8 kg m−2 h−1 under 1 sun illumination, leading to a 23.3% higher than that of the BS. More importantly, the effective convection of the BWS from sides and surface is demonstrated that promotes sustainable steam escape to achieve continuous water evaporation. This proof of concept work provides an insightful attempt to develop scalable evaporation systems with green biomass‐derived resources and functional biomimetic structure.

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Section: Efficient Solar Evaporation Performance Of the Bionic Wood C...mentioning

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High‐Yield, Green, and Scalable Solar‐Powered Interfacial Evaporation of Multibioinspired Hierarchical‐Integrated Nanofibrous Wood Surface with Sustainable Steam Escape

Zhang

et al. 2023

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“…The CVCSF-750@CNTs show great reuse performance with an average evaporation rate of 2.01 kg m –2 h –1 in fresh water (Figure n) and 1.96 kg m –2 h –1 (Figure S22b) in seawater under 1 sun illumination. For comparison, the efficiency and the evaporation rate of current two-dimensional self-floating solar evaporators under 1 sun irradiation are shown in Figure o, ,,− and our CVCSF-750@CNTs exhibits one of the highest evaporation rates with efficient energy utilization.…”

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Rational Design of a Hydrophilic Core–Hydrophobic Shell Yarn-Based Solar Evaporator with an Underwater Aerophilic Surface for Self-Floating and High-Performance Dynamic Water Purification

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Liu,

et al. 2024

Nano Lett.

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Interfacial solar vapor generation holds great promise for alleviating the global freshwater crisis, but its realworld application is limited by the efficiently choppy water evaporation and industrial production capability. Herein, a selffloating solar evaporator with an underwater aerophilic surface is innovatively fabricated by weaving core−shell yarns via mature weaving techniques. The core−shell yarns possess capillary water channels in the hydrophilic cotton core and can trap air in the hydrophobic electrospinning nanofiber shell when submerged underwater, simultaneously realizing controllable water supplies, stable self-flotation, and great thermal insulation. Consequently, the self-floating solar evaporator achieves an evaporation rate of 2.26 kg m −2 h −1 under 1 sun irradiation, with a reduced heat conduction of 70.18 W m −2 . Additionally, for the first time, a solar evaporator can operate continuously in water with varying waveforms and intensities over 24 h, exhibiting an outdoor cumulative evaporation rate of 14.17 kg m −2 day −1 .

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“…Based on the experimental results, this aerogel showed a high ER value of 1.34 kg m −2 h −1 with a solar-energy efficiency of 89.4% under one sun power density. Inspired by the transpiration of trees, researchers recently developed a self-floating bionic mushroom-like solar steam generator (BMSSG) 89 The mimics of a mushroom's stipe and pileus were respectively made from a wooden strip and a PVA-modified graphene aerogel. Owing to the specific 3D shape of this fabricated aerogel, the η value exceeded the maximum level in one-stage devices and reached 104.8%.…”

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Aerogels in passive solar thermal desalination: a review

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A self-floating and integrated bionic mushroom for highly efficient solar steam generation

Cited by 44 publications

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High‐Yield, Green, and Scalable Solar‐Powered Interfacial Evaporation of Multibioinspired Hierarchical‐Integrated Nanofibrous Wood Surface with Sustainable Steam Escape

High‐Yield, Green, and Scalable Solar‐Powered Interfacial Evaporation of Multibioinspired Hierarchical‐Integrated Nanofibrous Wood Surface with Sustainable Steam Escape

Rational Design of a Hydrophilic Core–Hydrophobic Shell Yarn-Based Solar Evaporator with an Underwater Aerophilic Surface for Self-Floating and High-Performance Dynamic Water Purification

Aerogels in passive solar thermal desalination: a review

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