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Flexible and Washable CNT-Embedded PAN Nonwoven Fabrics for Solar-Enabled Evaporation and Desalination of Seawater
Abstract
Nanostructured photothermal membranes hold great potential for solar-driven seawater desalination; however, their pragmatic applications are often limited by substantial salt accumulation. To solve this issue, we have designed and prepared flexible and washable carbon-nanotube-embedded polyacrylonitrile nonwoven fabrics by a simple electrospinning route. The wet fabric exhibits a strong photoabsorption in a wide spectral range (350–2500 nm), and it has a photoabsorption efficiency of 90.8%. When coated onto a polystyrene foam, the fabric shows a high seawater evaporation rate of 1.44 kg m –2 h –1 under simulated sunlight irradiation (1.0 kW m –2 ). With a high concentration of simulated seawater as the model, the accumulation of solid salts can be clearly observed on the surface of the fabric, resulting in a severe decay of the evaporation rate. These salts can be effortlessly washed away from the fabric through a plain handwashing process. The washing process has a negligible influence on the morphology, photoabsorption, and evaporation performance of the fabric, demonstrating good durability. More importantly, a larger fabric can easily be fabricated, and the combination of washable fabrics with various parallel PS foams can facilitate the construction of large-scale outdoor evaporation devices, conferring the great potential for efficient desalination of seawater under natural sunlight.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhu, B., Kou, H., Liu, Z., Wang, Z., Macharia, D. K., Zhu, M., Wu, B., Liu, X., & Chen, Z.
- Venue
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2019-08-30
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 38
- Pages
- 35005-35014
- ISSN
- 1944-8244 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8252
- OpenAlex
- W2970317745
- Cited by
- 257
- References
- 43
- FWCI
- 6.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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