Abstract
Solar evaporation has attracted much attention for water collection. However, previous studies on the traditional interface evaporation pay little attention to the selective spectral properties of solar absorbers, leading to mid-infrared radiative heat loss. Besides, during the vapor condensation, the scatter and absorption of the droplets reduce the incident solar intensity on the evaporation interface below. In this work, a freshwater collection strategy combining solar selective absorber and daytime passive radiative cooling techniques is proposed. The solar selective absorber achieves a high solar thermal conversion efficiency (ηevap = 0.894 at 1 sun) to enhance solar evaporation. The passive daytime radiative cooling coating achieves a high solar reflectance R¯solar = 0.927 and thermal emittance ε¯LWIR = 0.929 in the atmospheric transmission window to cool the condensation surface and enhance vapor condensation. In addition, the contact angle is optimized to be 79° by manipulating the hydrophilicity of the condensation surface to ensure the droplet nucleation and shedding. Indoor experiments show that the water collection rate reaches 0.43 kg m−2 h−1. This work provides a promising water collection strategy through solar heating and radiative cooling.
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