A bioinspired solar evaporator with a horizontal channel-like framework for efficient and stable high-salinity brine desalination

Design of an interface heating device based on polydivinylbenzene/SiO2/Bi2WO6 and its visible light response performance for water purification

Environmental pollution and the shortage of drinking water are the challenges that mankind is facing. Solar interface evaporation technology has been demonstrated as an important method for producing clean water, but its application to sewage still faces problems, mainly manifested in solubility and oily pollutants. Therefore, an evaporator device contains a superhydrophobic Bi₂WO₆ felt floating layer, a filter paper hydrophilic layer, and a copper foam/CuO photothermal layer, of which the water contact angle of the superhydrophobic felt can reach 159°. The floating layer not only has the ability to adsorb n-hexane but the Rh B degradation can also be realized under indoor/outdoor light conditions. The carrier life of Bi₂WO₆ is 28.8 ns. A copper foam/CuO photothermal layer prepared through a low-temperature treatment is combined with the floating and hydrophilic layer to obtain an evaporation rate of 1.53 kg m^-2 h^-1.