Chinese Ink: A Powerful Photothermal Material for Solar Steam Generation
Abstract
Abstract Solar steam generation holds great promise in alleviating fresh water crises, particularly in regions with accessible seawater and abundant insolation. Affordable, efficient, and environmentally friendly photothermal materials are needed to fabricate sunlight‐driven evaporation devices. Herein, Chinese ink, a carbon‐based paint used in traditional painting and calligraphy, is readily coated on diverse substrates and stabilized by atomic layer deposition (ALD) for solar steam generation. The ALD/Chinese ink coating exhibits strong and broad light absorption from the NIR to UV regions. Both ALD/Chinese‐ink‐coated membranes and wood display excellent photothermal properties and superior evaporation performance under simulated sunlight. This study demonstrates the potential of ALD/Chinese ink coating to achieve higher evaporation rate and efficiency by utilizing substrates with rough, structured surfaces and low thermal conductivity.
- Authors:
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[2]
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1491840
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1469418
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; DE‐AC02‐06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Materials Interfaces
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2196-7350
- Publisher:
- Wiley-VCH
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; atomic layer deposition; Chinese ink; photothermal; solar steam; water
Citation Formats
Yang, Hao‐Cheng, Chen, Zhaowei, Xie, Yunsong, Wang, Jie, Elam, Jeffrey W., Li, Weihua, and Darling, Seth B. Chinese Ink: A Powerful Photothermal Material for Solar Steam Generation. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/admi.201801252.
Yang, Hao‐Cheng, Chen, Zhaowei, Xie, Yunsong, Wang, Jie, Elam, Jeffrey W., Li, Weihua, & Darling, Seth B. Chinese Ink: A Powerful Photothermal Material for Solar Steam Generation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201801252
Yang, Hao‐Cheng, Chen, Zhaowei, Xie, Yunsong, Wang, Jie, Elam, Jeffrey W., Li, Weihua, and Darling, Seth B. Tue .
"Chinese Ink: A Powerful Photothermal Material for Solar Steam Generation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201801252. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1491840.
@article{osti_1491840,
title = {Chinese Ink: A Powerful Photothermal Material for Solar Steam Generation},
author = {Yang, Hao‐Cheng and Chen, Zhaowei and Xie, Yunsong and Wang, Jie and Elam, Jeffrey W. and Li, Weihua and Darling, Seth B.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Solar steam generation holds great promise in alleviating fresh water crises, particularly in regions with accessible seawater and abundant insolation. Affordable, efficient, and environmentally friendly photothermal materials are needed to fabricate sunlight‐driven evaporation devices. Herein, Chinese ink, a carbon‐based paint used in traditional painting and calligraphy, is readily coated on diverse substrates and stabilized by atomic layer deposition (ALD) for solar steam generation. The ALD/Chinese ink coating exhibits strong and broad light absorption from the NIR to UV regions. Both ALD/Chinese‐ink‐coated membranes and wood display excellent photothermal properties and superior evaporation performance under simulated sunlight. This study demonstrates the potential of ALD/Chinese ink coating to achieve higher evaporation rate and efficiency by utilizing substrates with rough, structured surfaces and low thermal conductivity.},
doi = {10.1002/admi.201801252},
journal = {Advanced Materials Interfaces},
number = 1,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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