PMID- 35398763
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220426
LR  - 20220426
IS  - 1095-7103 (Electronic)
IS  - 0021-9797 (Linking)
VI  - 619
DP  - 2022 Aug
TI  - Honeycomb-structured fabric with enhanced photothermal management and 
      site-specific salt crystallization enables sustainable solar steam generation.
PG  - 322-330
LID - S0021-9797(22)00517-3 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.03.122 [doi]
AB  - The emerging of solar-driven interfacial evaporation provides new opportunities 
      to alleviate the shortage of fresh water resource. Nevertheless, in practical 
      solar desalination, salt precipitation will lead to the decrease of evaporation 
      rate due to reduced light absorption and blocked evaporation channels of 
      evaporator. It still remains a challenge to eliminate salt accumulation and 
      simultaneously maintain high-efficient evaporation. In this work, a solar 
      evaporator was prepared based on reduced graphene oxide and chitosan coated 
      honeycomb-structured fabric (rCHF). The rCHF showed a high light absorbance of 
      97.2% due to enhanced light trapping of the honeycomb structure and ultra-low 
      thermal conductivity of 0.044 W m(-1) K(-1). Furthermore, the temperature 
      gradient generated inside the honeycomb unit can induce the Marangoni effect, 
      which led to the site-specific salt crystallization on rCHF in seawater 
      evaporation. As a result, the rCHF realized an excellent solar evaporation rate 
      of 2.02 kg m(-2)h(-1) under one sun irradiation (1 kW m(-2)). The site-specific 
      salt crystallization on the surface of rCHF ensured stable evaporation even in 
      20% brine, and the isolated salt can be removed by natural dissolution owing to 
      the excellent hydrophilicity of rCHF. This work provides a new perspective for 
      the design of solar evaporator for practical solar seawater desalination.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Gao, Can
AU  - Gao C
AD  - Key Laboratory of Textile Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College 
      of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
FAU - Zhu, Jingjing
AU  - Zhu J
AD  - Key Laboratory of Textile Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College 
      of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
FAU - Li, Jiecong
AU  - Li J
AD  - Key Laboratory of Textile Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College 
      of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
FAU - Zhou, Buguang
AU  - Zhou B
AD  - Key Laboratory of Textile Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College 
      of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
FAU - Liu, Xiaojing
AU  - Liu X
AD  - Key Laboratory of Textile Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College 
      of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
FAU - Chen, Yue
AU  - Chen Y
AD  - Key Laboratory of Textile Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College 
      of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
FAU - Zhang, Zhi
AU  - Zhang Z
AD  - Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics (MOE), Department of Materials 
      Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. Electronic 
      address: zhizhang@pku.edu.cn.
FAU - Guo, Jiansheng
AU  - Guo J
AD  - Key Laboratory of Textile Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College 
      of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China. Electronic address: 
      jsguo@dhu.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220329
PL  - United States
TA  - J Colloid Interface Sci
JT  - Journal of colloid and interface science
JID - 0043125
RN  - 0 (Steam)
RN  - 451W47IQ8X (Sodium Chloride)
SB  - IM
MH  - Crystallization
MH  - Sodium Chloride
MH  - *Steam
MH  - Sunlight
MH  - *Water Purification
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Chitosan
OT  - Draping evaporation system
OT  - Graphene
OT  - Honeycomb fabric
OT  - Site-specific salt crystallization
OT  - Solar steam generation
COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2022/04/11 06:00
MHDA- 2022/04/27 06:00
CRDT- 2022/04/10 20:31
PHST- 2021/12/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/03/15 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/03/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/04/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/04/27 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/04/10 20:31 [entrez]
AID - S0021-9797(22)00517-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.03.122 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Colloid Interface Sci. 2022 Aug;619:322-330. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.03.122. 
      Epub 2022 Mar 29.