A general salt-resistant hydrophilic/hydrophobic nanoporous double layer design for efficient and stable solar water evaporation distillation

作者:Yang, Yawei; Zhao, Hongyang; Yin, Zongyou; Zhao, Jianqiu; Yin, Xingtian; Li, Na; Yin, Dandan; Li, Yannan; Lei, Bo; Du, Yaping*; Que, Wenxiu*
来源:Materials Horizons, 2018, 5(6): 1143-1150.
DOI:10.1039/c8mh00386f

摘要

A novel and elegant hydrophilic/hydrophobic nanoporous double layer structure was designed and developed for efficient long-term water desalination. It contained a hydrophobic salt-resistant hierarchical layer of well-defined Cu2SnSe3 (or Cu2ZnSnSe4) nanosphere arrays for broad solar harvesting and water vapor evaporation, and a hydrophilic filter membrane for continuous water supply and vapor generation. The as-fabricated self-floatable devices achieve remarkable solar water evaporation performances (average evaporation rate: 1.657 kg m(-2) h(-1) and solar thermal conversion efficiency: 86.6% under one sun) with super stability for water distillation from seawater and wastewater containing organic dyes, heavy metals and bacteria.