Shenghua Lin,Ling Ai,Jing Zhang,Tongle Bu,Hongjiang Li,Fuzhi Huang,Jun Zhang,Yuehui Lu,Weijie Song
Silver ants forage at extremely high environmental temperatures, the hairs of which play a crucial role in reducing the body temperature via enhanced optical reflection and radiative heat dissipation as a passive daytime radiative cooler. Inspired by the hierarchical feature structure of the hairs, we fabricated the flexible photonic architectures (FPA) on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). With some modification to the feature structure, the FPA-PDMS exhibited not only a large emittance in the mid-infrared spectral range , comparable with that of state-of-the-art thermal emitters , but also the record-high transmittance and haze in the visible and near-infrared range, which would be particularly appealing to photovoltaic devices for maximizing sunlight absorption and minimizing parasitic heat. The ease of application of the FPA-PDMS was demonstrated in both emerging perovskite and mature commercial crystalline silicon solar cells , where the FPA-PDMS was electrostatically attached to their glass superstrates or covers and the improvements in photovoltaic characteristics as a result of enhanced light harvesting were confirmed through laboratory measurements. Though the synergetic effects of the improved transparency and heat radiation brought by the FPA-PDMS need to be characterized outdoors in the future, these findings pave the way for suppressing optical and thermal losses simultaneously in opto-electric-thermal coupled devices through learning sophistically evolved photonic architectures from nature.
Shaoan Cheng,Yihang Li,Zhen Yu,Yi Sun,Beichen Jin,Zhengzhong Mao
Freshwater shortages and water pollution have threatened the sustainable development of human beings. Efficient and sustainable technologies are urgently needed to achieve seawater desalination and wastewater treatment. Here, a hybrid device is developed consisting of photovoltaics (PV), membrane distillation (MD), and electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs) for sustainable freshwater production and wastewater treatment. The device obtains freshwater from seawater with a stable rate of 0.97 kg m –2 h –1 under 1 sun, and the produced clean water reaches the drinking water limit of the WHO. This device also obtains freshwater from a methylene blue (MB) solution at a stable water production rate of 0.75 kg m –2 h –1 , and the concentrated MB solution demonstrates a degradation rate of 96.05% by in situ degradation of EAOPs. The high water-production performance and degradation performance is attributed to the well-designed structure of the three stages PV-MD-EAOPs device, which enables both the latent heat recycle of water evaporation and the contaminants enrichment of wastewater. To summarize, a new path is explored for in situ thermal and electricity utilization of photovoltaic for efficient treatment of wastewater, which is a meaningful way for synchronous clean water production and wastewater treatment.
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