Mechanisms and scale-up potential of 3D solar interfacial-evaporators
Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5EE01104C, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.James H. Zhang, Rohith Mittapally, Abimbola Oluwade, Gang ChenThe physics and scaling of thermally driven 3D solar interfacial-evaporators are analyzed. 3D evaporators in an open system can exceed the solar-thermal limit nominally by absorbing environmental heat but cannot do so in a closed solar still.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01104C, Paper


The physics and scaling of thermally driven 3D solar interfacial-evaporators are analyzed. 3D evaporators in an open system can exceed the solar-thermal limit nominally by absorbing environmental heat but cannot do so in a closed solar still.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
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