Functional photothermal sponges for efficient solar steam generation and accelerated cleaning of viscous crude-oil spill

• Main Authors: Wang, Kai, Wang, Ding Yang, Wang, Meng Zhu, Dan, Xin Xin, Che, Li Ming, Xu, Hui Huang, Zhou, Hua, Liu, Hong, Singh, Lakhveer, Wu, Xue E.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2020
• Subjects: QD Chemistry; TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery; TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/26493/1/Functional%20photothermal%20sponges%20for%20efficient%20solar%20steam%20generation%20.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/26493/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2019.110203; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2019.110203

Heat localization has been proposed as a new strategy to utilize solar energy efficiently. In the past few years, extensive research on heat localization has been limited to solar-steam generation. Many devices have been designed to improve the efficiency of photothermal conversion, but the complex...