High-performance biomass-based solar-thermal hydrogel based on silkworm excrement for water evaporation and thermoelectric integration application
Sansan Ao, Zhifei Chen, Haoyang Chen, Liuke Zhang, Yanan Wang, Yingyuan Zhang, Tao Jia, Gaolei Xi, Tai Peng
Abstract
A strategy is designed to prepare the efficient biomass solar-thermal material through animal metabolism, then used to construct a 2D solar evaporator silkworm excrement hydrogel, which exhibits high solar-to-vapor efficiency.
Topics & Concepts
Thermoelectric effectBiomass (ecology)EvaporationMaterials scienceEnvironmental scienceThermalNanotechnologyProcess engineeringChemical engineeringEcologyEngineeringBiologyMeteorologyPhysicsThermodynamicsHeat Transfer and OptimizationSolar-Powered Water Purification Methods