Fully Superhydrophilic, Self-Floatable, and Multi-Contamination-Resistant Solar Steam Generator Inspired by Seaweed
Highly hydrophilic materials enable rapid water delivery and salt redissolution in solar-driven seawater desalination. However, the lack of independent floatability inhibits heat localization at the air/water interface. In nature, seaweeds with internal gas microvesicles can float near the sea surfa...
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| author | Chiyu Wen Hongshuang Guo Yingnan Zhu Haoyu Bai Weiqiang Zhao Xinsheng Wang Jing Yang Moyuan Cao Lei Zhang |
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| description | Highly hydrophilic materials enable rapid water delivery and salt redissolution in solar-driven seawater desalination. However, the lack of independent floatability inhibits heat localization at the air/water interface. In nature, seaweeds with internal gas microvesicles can float near the sea surface to ensure photosynthesis. Here, we have developed a seaweed-inspired, independently floatable, but superhydrophilic (SIFS) solar evaporator. It needs no extra floatation support and can simultaneously achieve continuous water pumping and heat concentration. The evaporator resists salt accumulation, oil pollution, microbial corrosion, and protein adsorption. Densely packed hollow glass microbeads promote intrinsic floatability and heat insulation. Superhydrophilic zwitterionic sulfobetaine hydrogel provides a continuous water supply, redissolves the deposited salt, and endows the SIFS evaporator with excellent anti-fouling properties. With its unprecedented anti-contamination ability, this SIFS evaporator is expected to open a new avenue for designing floatable superhydrophilic materials and solving real-world issues of solar steam generation in complex environmental conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4baf8f40d19e4f7aa7fd254983661bc52023-03-30T04:26:18ZengElsevierEngineering2095-80992023-01-0120153161Fully Superhydrophilic, Self-Floatable, and Multi-Contamination-Resistant Solar Steam Generator Inspired by SeaweedChiyu Wen0Hongshuang Guo1Yingnan Zhu2Haoyu Bai3Weiqiang Zhao4Xinsheng Wang5Jing Yang6Moyuan Cao7Lei Zhang8Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology & Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, ChinaFrontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology & Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, ChinaFrontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology & Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, ChinaHaihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, ChinaFrontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology & Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, ChinaHaihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, ChinaFrontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology & Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, ChinaHaihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; Corresponding authors.Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology & Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; Corresponding authors.Highly hydrophilic materials enable rapid water delivery and salt redissolution in solar-driven seawater desalination. However, the lack of independent floatability inhibits heat localization at the air/water interface. In nature, seaweeds with internal gas microvesicles can float near the sea surface to ensure photosynthesis. Here, we have developed a seaweed-inspired, independently floatable, but superhydrophilic (SIFS) solar evaporator. It needs no extra floatation support and can simultaneously achieve continuous water pumping and heat concentration. The evaporator resists salt accumulation, oil pollution, microbial corrosion, and protein adsorption. Densely packed hollow glass microbeads promote intrinsic floatability and heat insulation. Superhydrophilic zwitterionic sulfobetaine hydrogel provides a continuous water supply, redissolves the deposited salt, and endows the SIFS evaporator with excellent anti-fouling properties. With its unprecedented anti-contamination ability, this SIFS evaporator is expected to open a new avenue for designing floatable superhydrophilic materials and solving real-world issues of solar steam generation in complex environmental conditions.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809922002028Superhydrophilic deviceBioinspirationIndependent floatabilityMulti-contamination resistanceSolar evaporation |
| spellingShingle | Chiyu Wen Hongshuang Guo Yingnan Zhu Haoyu Bai Weiqiang Zhao Xinsheng Wang Jing Yang Moyuan Cao Lei Zhang Fully Superhydrophilic, Self-Floatable, and Multi-Contamination-Resistant Solar Steam Generator Inspired by Seaweed Engineering Superhydrophilic device Bioinspiration Independent floatability Multi-contamination resistance Solar evaporation |
| title | Fully Superhydrophilic, Self-Floatable, and Multi-Contamination-Resistant Solar Steam Generator Inspired by Seaweed |
| title_full | Fully Superhydrophilic, Self-Floatable, and Multi-Contamination-Resistant Solar Steam Generator Inspired by Seaweed |
| title_fullStr | Fully Superhydrophilic, Self-Floatable, and Multi-Contamination-Resistant Solar Steam Generator Inspired by Seaweed |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fully Superhydrophilic, Self-Floatable, and Multi-Contamination-Resistant Solar Steam Generator Inspired by Seaweed |
| title_short | Fully Superhydrophilic, Self-Floatable, and Multi-Contamination-Resistant Solar Steam Generator Inspired by Seaweed |
| title_sort | fully superhydrophilic self floatable and multi contamination resistant solar steam generator inspired by seaweed |
| topic | Superhydrophilic device Bioinspiration Independent floatability Multi-contamination resistance Solar evaporation |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809922002028 |
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