A bio-inspired, hierarchically porous structure with a decoupled fluidic transportation and evaporative pathway toward high-performance evaporation
Jianguo Li, Chaoji Chen, Wentao Gan, Zhihan Li, Hua Xie, Miaolun Jiao, Shaoliang Xiao, Hu Tang, Liangbing Hu
Abstract
High-rate evaporation is achieved by a delignified reed, featuring hierarchically, 3D porous structure with microchannels surrounding macrochannels, which decouples the transport and evaporation of fluids, contributing to a high evaporation rate.
Topics & Concepts
EvaporationFluidicsPorosityMaterials sciencePorous mediumNanotechnologyEnvironmental scienceChemical engineeringComposite materialEngineeringPhysicsAerospace engineeringThermodynamicsSolar-Powered Water Purification MethodsSurface Modification and SuperhydrophobicityFluid Dynamics and Thin Films