Low cost, facile, environmentally friendly all biomass-based squid ink-starch hydrogel for efficient solar-steam generation

• Published in: Journal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability Vol. 8; no. 45; pp. 2418 - 24116
• Main Authors: Xu, Yuanlu, Xiao, Xin, Fan, Xinfei, Yang, Yi, Song, Chengwen, Fan, Yaofang, Liu, Yanming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry 24.11.2020
• Subjects: absorption; Biomass; Desalination; Drinking water; Electromagnetic absorption; Energy conversion efficiency; Energy efficiency; Evaporation; Evaporation rate; Evaporators; Hydrogels; Photothermal conversion; Regeneration; Replenishment; Seawater; Squid; Starch; steam; Steam generation; Sustainable development; Water crises; Wettability

The emerging solar-steam generation is recognized as one of the promising pathways to mitigate the global water crisis, but has a major obstacle: the development of sustainable solar-driven water evaporators with favorable evaporation performance. In this work, an all biomass-based hydrogel evaporat...