Photo-Electro-Thermal Textiles for Scalable, High-Performance, and Salt-Resistant Solar-Driven Desalination.

ABSTRACT: Solar-driven interfacial evaporation is an emerging desalination technology that can potentially relieve the freshwater scarcity issue. To obtain high and continuous evaporation rates for all-weather, chemically engineered structural materials have been widely explored for simultaneous photothermal and electrothermal conversion. However, many previously reported fabrication processes involve poor integration and considerable energy loss. Herein, a scalable photo-electro-thermal textile is proposed to enable high efficiency, long-term salt rejection, and solar-driven desalination. Specifically, the photo-electro-thermal yarns with a core (commercial electric wire)-shell (polypyrrole-decorated Tencel) structure realize the integration of electrothermal and photothermal conversion. The wrappi

SUBMITTER: Xu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11336979 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature