Mushrooms as Efficient Solar Steam‐Generation Devices
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures · Nanjing University
Abstract
Solar steam generation is emerging as a promising technology, for its potential in harvesting solar energy for various applications such as desalination and sterilization. Recent studies have reported a variety of artificial structures that are designed and fabricated to improve energy conversion efficiencies by enhancing solar absorption, heat localization, water supply, and vapor transportation. Mushrooms, as a kind of living organism, are surprisingly found to be efficient solar steam-generation devices for the first time. Natural and carbonized mushrooms can achieve ≈62% and ≈78% conversion efficiencies under 1 sun illumination, respectively. It is found that this capability of high solar steam generation…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 33.49
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 34
Authors
7- NXNing Xu
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- XHXiaozhen Hu
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- WXWeichao Xu
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- XLXiuqiang Li
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- LZLin Zhou
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
Topics & keywords
- Materials science
- Nanotechnology
- Engineering physics
- Engineering
- Affordable and clean energy