Extremely cost-effective and efficient solar vapor generation using thermally isolated black paper

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2017.am1b.1
• Publication Date: 2017-05-08T12:04:35Z
• Authors: Zhejun Liu; Haomin Song; Dengxin Ji; Chenyu Li; Alec Cheney; Youhai Liu; Nan Zhang; Xie Zeng; Borui Chen; Jun Gao; Xiang Liu; Diana Aga; Suhua Jiang; Zongfu Yu; Qiaoqiang Gan
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 03 medical and health sciences; 7. Clean energy

We report an efficient strategy using extremely low-cost materials. Due to the excellent thermal insulation, a record efficiency of ~88% was obtained under one sun without concentration, corresponding evaporation rate 1.28 kg/(m2·h).