Self-Floating Carbon Nanotube Membrane on Macroporous Silica Substrate for Highly Efficient Solar-Driven Interfacial Water Evaporation

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1223-1230

  Wang, Yuchao ^a   Zhang, Lianbin ^a   Wang, Peng ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Heat barrier; Interfacial heating; Photothermal; Solar evaporation

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EVAPORATION; NANOTUBES; SILICA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT; YARN;

ADSORPTION CAPABILITY; BILAYERED MATERIALS; CARBON NANOTUBE MEMBRANES; CONTAMINATED WATER; OPERATION STABILITY; PHOTO-THERMAL; SOLAR EVAPORATION; SOLAR THERMAL CONVERSION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84960076171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b01274     Document Type: Article

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