Engineering Biomimetic Nanostructured 'Melanosome' Textiles for Advanced Solar-to-Thermal Devices

Autor:	Peng Xiao, Weiqing Yang, Nianxiang Qiu, Shan Li, Feng Ni, Chang Zhang, Jincui Gu, Shiao-Wei Kuo, Tao Chen
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Mechanical Engineering General Materials Science Bioengineering General Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics
Zdroj:	Nano Letters. 22:9343-9350
ISSN:	1530-6992 1530-6984
Popis:	In nature, deep-sea fish featured with close-packed melanosomes can remarkably lower light reflection, which have inspired us to design ultrablack coatings for enhanced solar-to-thermal conversion. Herein, a biomimetic ultrablack textile is developed enabled by the formation of hierarchical polypyrrole (Ppy) nanospheres. The fabricated textile exhibits prominently suppressed reflectance of lower than 4% and highly enhanced absorption of up to 96%. Further experimental results and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation evidence the formation process of hierarchical nanospheres. Based on high-efficient solar-to-thermal conversion, the biomimetic textile with desirable conductivity allows the development of a salt-free solar evaporator, enabling a sustainable seawater evaporation rate of up to 1.54 kg m
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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