journal article·2024-12

Making Interfacial Solar Evaporation of Seawater Faster than Fresh Water

Huimin Yu, Huanyu Jin, Meijia Qiu, Yunzheng Liang, Peng Sun, Chuanqi Cheng, Pan Wu, Yida Wang, Xuan Wu, Dewei Chu, Min Zheng, Tong Qiu, Yi Lu, Bin Zhang, Wenjie Mai, Xiaofei Yang, Gary Owens, Haolan Xu

Advanced Materials· Volume 36· Issue 52
Publisher page

Abstract

Abstract Interfacial solar evaporation‐based seawater desalination is regarded as one of the most promising strategies to alleviate freshwater scarcity. However, the solar evaporation rate of real seawater is significantly constricted by the ubiquitous salts present in seawater. In addition to the common issue of salt accumulation on the evaporation surface during solar evaporation, strong hydration between salt ions and water molecules leads to a lower evaporation rate for real seawater compared to pure water. Here a facile and general strategy is developed to reverse this occurrence, that is, making real seawater evaporation faster than pure water. By simply introducing specific mineral materials into the floating photothermal evaporator, ion exchange at air–water interfaces directly results in a decrease in seawater evaporation enthalpy, and consequently achieves much higher seawater evaporation rates compared to pure water. This process is spontaneously realized during seawater solar evaporation. Considering the current enormous clean water production from evaporation‐based desalination plants, such an evaporation performance improvement can remarkably increase annual clean water production, benefiting millions of people worldwide.
Source: crossref · Quality: baseline

Research context

OpenAlex topics: Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods · Membrane Separation Technologies · Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems

SciVX discovery tags are terminology-based. OpenAlex topics are source-provided classifications.

Affiliations

Future Industries Institute UniSA STEM University of South Australia Mawson Lakes Campus Adelaide SA 5095 Australia

Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen Guangdong 518055 China

Siyuan Laboratory Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials Department of Physics Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 China

Department of Chemistry School of Science Tianjin University Tianjin 300072 China

School of Materials Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia

School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials University of Adelaide Adelaide SA 5005 Australia

Materials Industrialization Engineering Research Center School of Materials Science and Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 China

Jiangsu Co‐Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources International Innovation Center for Forest Chemicals and Materials College of Science Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing 210037 China

Funding

Australian Research Council · China Scholarship Council · Australian National Fabrication Facility

References (68)

Show source-provided references
1. 10.1126/science.112884510.1126/science.1128845 ↗
2. 10.1126/sciadv.150032310.1126/sciadv.1500323 ↗
3. 10.1126/science.120048810.1126/science.1200488 ↗
4. 10.1038/nmat480510.1038/nmat4805 ↗
5. 10.1016/j.watres.2018.11.06210.1016/j.watres.2018.11.062 ↗
6. 10.1016/j.desal.2015.01.04110.1016/j.desal.2015.01.041 ↗
7. 10.1038/s41560-018-0260-710.1038/s41560-018-0260-7 ↗
8. 10.1126/sciadv.aax076310.1126/sciadv.aax0763 ↗
9. 10.1016/j.joule.2021.04.00910.1016/j.joule.2021.04.009 ↗
10. 10.1016/j.joule.2021.05.01010.1016/j.joule.2021.05.010 ↗
11. 10.1038/ncomms544910.1038/ncomms5449 ↗
12. 10.1038/s41578-020-0182-410.1038/s41578-020-0182-4 ↗
13. 10.1002/adma.20210740010.1002/adma.202107400 ↗
14. 10.1016/j.nanoen.2022.10701610.1016/j.nanoen.2022.107016 ↗
15. 10.1016/j.scib.2021.09.01810.1016/j.scib.2021.09.018 ↗
16. 10.1002/advs.20200250110.1002/advs.202002501 ↗
17. 10.1038/s41893-020-0566-x10.1038/s41893-020-0566-x ↗
18. 10.1039/D0MH00735H10.1039/D0MH00735H ↗
19. 10.1002/aenm.20190031010.1002/aenm.201900310 ↗
20. 10.1038/s41565-018-0097-z10.1038/s41565-018-0097-z ↗
21. 10.1016/j.joule.2018.04.00410.1016/j.joule.2018.04.004 ↗
22. 10.1039/C9EE04122B10.1039/C9EE04122B ↗
23. 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.2c0018710.1021/acsmaterialslett.2c00187 ↗
24. 10.1002/anie.20220848710.1002/anie.202208487 ↗
25. 10.1016/j.cej.2022.14070410.1016/j.cej.2022.140704 ↗
26. 10.1002/adma.20211054810.1002/adma.202110548 ↗
27. 10.1039/C8EE00567B10.1039/C8EE00567B ↗
28. 10.1007/s42765-022-00172-510.1007/s42765-022-00172-5 ↗
29. 10.1126/sciadv.abi749810.1126/sciadv.abi7498 ↗
30. 10.1002/adma.20230159610.1002/adma.202301596 ↗
31. 10.1016/j.desal.2021.11509310.1016/j.desal.2021.115093 ↗
32. 10.3390/polym1615223110.3390/polym16152231 ↗
33. 10.1002/adfm.20221476910.1002/adfm.202214769 ↗
34. 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c0146610.1021/acsenergylett.0c01466 ↗
35. 10.1021/acsnano.1c0739110.1021/acsnano.1c07391 ↗
36. 10.1002/adfm.20210813510.1002/adfm.202108135 ↗
37. 10.1002/adfm.20210858610.1002/adfm.202108586 ↗
38. 10.1002/adma.20200092210.1002/adma.202000922 ↗
39. 10.1002/adma.20190826910.1002/adma.201908269 ↗
40. 10.1002/adma.20210299410.1002/adma.202102994 ↗
41. 10.1016/j.joule.2021.07.00510.1016/j.joule.2021.07.005 ↗
42. 10.1021/acsnano.0c0767710.1021/acsnano.0c07677 ↗
43. 10.1021/acsnano.1c0190010.1021/acsnano.1c01900 ↗
44. 10.1021/acsnano.1c0257810.1021/acsnano.1c02578 ↗
45. 10.1021/acsnano.1c0912410.1021/acsnano.1c09124 ↗
46. 10.1002/adfm.20210002510.1002/adfm.202100025 ↗
47. 10.1002/adfm.20211215910.1002/adfm.202112159 ↗
48. 10.1002/adma.20190049810.1002/adma.201900498 ↗
49. 10.1002/advs.20190347810.1002/advs.201903478 ↗
50. 10.1002/adfm.20210438010.1002/adfm.202104380 ↗
51. 10.1038/s41467-022-28457-810.1038/s41467-022-28457-8 ↗
52. 10.1038/s41467-020-14366-110.1038/s41467-020-14366-1 ↗
53. 10.1038/s41467-021-21124-410.1038/s41467-021-21124-4 ↗
54. 10.1002/adfm.20210261810.1002/adfm.202102618 ↗
55. 10.1021/ed054p54010.1021/ed054p540 ↗
56. 10.1016/S0378-3812(01)00694-X10.1016/S0378-3812(01)00694-X ↗
57. 10.1126/science.118351210.1126/science.1183512 ↗
58. 10.1016/j.desal.2020.11463310.1016/j.desal.2020.114633 ↗
59. 10.1002/adma.20220726210.1002/adma.202207262 ↗
60. 10.1155/2013/95764710.1155/2013/957647 ↗
61. 10.1021/j150493a02310.1021/j150493a023 ↗
62. 10.1039/C8TA00187A10.1039/C8TA00187A ↗
63. 10.1038/nphoton.2016.7510.1038/nphoton.2016.75 ↗
64. 10.1016/j.cpc.2004.12.01410.1016/j.cpc.2004.12.014 ↗
65. 10.1002/wcms.115910.1002/wcms.1159 ↗
66. 10.1016/0010-4655(95)00042-E10.1016/0010-4655(95)00042-E ↗
67. 10.1063/1.496017510.1063/1.4960175 ↗
68. 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c0019410.1021/acs.jctc.0c00194 ↗