{"title":"Revisiting the ruthenium oxide-based water oxidation catalysts in acidic media: From amorphous to crystalline","authors":"Mengxin Chen , Sze Xing Tan , Shuying Cheng , Yi-Yu Chen , Yung-Hsi Hsu , Sung-Fu Hung , Lili Zhang , Jiajian Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110800","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110800","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ruthenium oxides (RuO<sub>2</sub>) are benchmark electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in water splitting (2 H<sub>2</sub>O → O<sub>2</sub> + 4 H<sup>+</sup> + 4<em>e</em><sup>–</sup>), but their catalytic activity and stability vary significantly among amorphous, crystalline, and hydrated forms. In this work, we explored the structure-performance relationships of various RuO<sub>2</sub> electrocatalysts using a combination of techniques. Cyclic voltammetry revealed that the redox behavior and adsorption energies of key intermediates (*OH and *O) differ based on the crystallinity and particle size of RuO<sub>2</sub>. Hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>) as a probing molecule indicated that the interaction strength of the *OOH intermediate is stronger on amorphous and low-crystallinity RuO<sub>2</sub> than on highly crystalline RuO<sub>2</sub>. Furthermore, in-situ techniques, including electrochemical attenuated total reflectance surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (ATR-SEIRAS), electrochemical-quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), and Raman spectroscopy, showed that amorphous RuO<sub>2</sub> hydrate exhibited higher OER activity but lower stability, while highly crystalline rutile RuO<sub>2</sub> was more stable up to 1.6 V but had weaker intermediate adsorption. These findings provide a clear understanding of how structural differences impact the catalytic performance and stability of RuO<sub>2</sub> electrocatalysts, offering guidance for optimizing OER catalysts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":394,"journal":{"name":"Nano Energy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 110800"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143452185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimizing interface properties of perylene-diimide-based cathode interlayer material by reducing 2-hydroxyethyl groups to achieve organic solar cells with efficiency over 19 %","authors":"Xiaoying Zhang , Quanwang Tang , Xuemei Yao , Qi Chen , Zhi-Guo Zhang , Ping Shen , Chao Weng","doi":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110799","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110799","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Polar functional side group plays an important role in regulating interface properties of diimide-based cathode interlayer materials (CIMs). Herein, we designed and synthesized two perylenediimide (PDI)- and naphthodiimide (NDI)-based CIMs, <strong>PDINHOH</strong> and <strong>NDINHOH</strong>, through properly reducing the number of polar 2-hydroxyethyl groups to optimize interface properties. Two CIMs were easily obtained by readily available raw materials and one-step reaction, exhibiting low product cost and excellent solubility. Results demonstrate that these 2-hydroxyethyl amino functionalized CIMs not only remain many outstanding advantages of bis(2-hydroxyethyl) amino, including reduced work function of Ag electrode, obvious self-doping effect, well-matched molecular energy levels and good contact with metal electrode, but also can improve thermal stability and dipole moment, reduce surface energy, optimize the contact with active layer, and increase electron conductivity and mobility. Benefitting from these comprehensive characteristics, organic solar cells (OSCs) based on PM6:L8-BO with <strong>PDINHOH</strong> as the CIM achieved an outstanding PCE up to 19.25 %, which is obviously higher than that of the counterpart <strong>NDINHOH</strong> (18.60 %) and that with the commonly used CIMs of PFN-Br (17.37 %) and PDINN (18.09 %) as well as the bis(2-hydroxyethyl) amino functionalized analogue. Importantly, these CIMs show good universal application in different active layer systems, metal electrodes and device structures. Additionally, <strong>PDINHOH</strong>-modified devices exhibit excellent storage stability, thermal and photo stability. This finding suggests that the rational modification of the polar functional side chains of diimide-based CIMs is a simple and effective strategy to optimize interface properties, and thereby obtaining thickness-insensitive, high-performance and stable OSCs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":394,"journal":{"name":"Nano Energy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 110799"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143443781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110798
Guoshun Liu , Zhonghao Li , Leiying Zeng , Jianxiong Lin , Baolin Zheng , Huan Liu , Liquan Chen , Fan Wu
{"title":"Single-crystal Ni-rich layered oxide cathodes with LiNbO3-Li3BO3 coating for sulfide all-solid-state batteries","authors":"Guoshun Liu , Zhonghao Li , Leiying Zeng , Jianxiong Lin , Baolin Zheng , Huan Liu , Liquan Chen , Fan Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110798","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110798","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sulfide all-solid-state batteries (SASSBs) with ultrahigh-nickel layered oxide cathode (LiNi<sub>x</sub>Co<sub>y</sub>Mn<sub>1-x-y</sub>O<sub>2</sub>, NCM, x ≥ 0.9) offer the potential of high energy density and safety for superior energy storage systems. However, stable cycling is difficult to realize due to adverse interfacial reactions, space charge layer (SCL), and elemental diffusion. <em>Herein</em>, we use a LiNbO<sub>3</sub>-Li<sub>3</sub>BO<sub>3</sub> mixed coating of LiNbO<sub>3</sub>-Li<sub>3</sub>BO<sub>3</sub> on a single-crystal Li[Ni<sub>0.92</sub>Co<sub>0.06</sub>Mn<sub>0.02</sub>]O<sub>2</sub> (SC-Ni92) to enhance interfacial stability between SC-Ni92 cathode and sulfide solid electrolyte. Electrochemical performance shows that SC-Ni92@LiNbO<sub>3</sub>-Li<sub>3</sub>BO<sub>3</sub>/Li<sub>6</sub>PS<sub>5</sub>Cl/Li-In SASSBs exhibit the best electrochemical performance, including 88.4 % capacity retention at 1.50 mA cm<sup>−2</sup> current density (1 C) for 100 cycles, and a discharge capacity of 150.1 mAh g<sup>−1</sup> at 7.49 mA cm<sup>−2</sup> high current density (5 C). The strategies adopted in this study provide valuable insights and guideline for the design of high-energy-density Ni-rich cathode materials for SASSBs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":394,"journal":{"name":"Nano Energy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 110798"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143435304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110796
Wenhao Fang , Yixuan Liu , Yongchao Zhao , Jie Yan , Suojiang Zhang , Haitao Zhang
{"title":"Intensified flow and mass transfer in lithium slurry redox flow batteries enabled by a bionic leafvein flow field","authors":"Wenhao Fang , Yixuan Liu , Yongchao Zhao , Jie Yan , Suojiang Zhang , Haitao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110796","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110796","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lithium slurry redox flow batteries (SRFBs) are regarded as one of the most promising long-duration electrochemical energy storage technologies as they combine the advantages of both traditional lithium-ion batteries and homogeneous flow batteries, while also offer the unique capability of decoupling energy density and power density. The flow field configuration of electrochemical reactors is critical for SRFBs as it can affect flow distribution, reduce slurry retention, and improve mass transfer. Notably, the bio-inspired flow fields exhibit great application potential in SRFBs. In this study, we propose a bionic leaf-vein flow field based on a plant leaf vein model and Murray's law. In addition, a three-dimensional multi-physics field simulation model for SRFBs is established, with a verification error of less than 4 % through charge-discharge experiments. The effects of the flow field on the slurry flow distribution, pressure drop, electrochemical reaction, battery impedance, and cycling performance are examined. The results reveal that the bionic leaf-vein flow field exhibits significantly lower flow resistance (with a pressure drop of 1.922 kPa) than the serpentine flow field (6.419 kPa). The flow area proportion increases from 0.8 without a flow field to over 0.93 with the proposed flow field. Furthermore, the SRFB can operate stably for more than 20 cycles while maintaining a high Coulombic efficiency (> 90 %), significantly enhancing the battery performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":394,"journal":{"name":"Nano Energy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 110796"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143435303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110797
Longquan Wang , Airan Li , Jiankang Li , Naoyuki Kawamoto , Duy Hieu Nguyen , Takao Mori
{"title":"Homogenizing composition to achieve high-performance Mg3Bi2-type thermoelectrics","authors":"Longquan Wang , Airan Li , Jiankang Li , Naoyuki Kawamoto , Duy Hieu Nguyen , Takao Mori","doi":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110797","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110797","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Introducing compositional fluctuation is an effective strategy for optimizing thermoelectric performance by scattering phonon transport. However, this approach can also impede carrier transport, resulting in an adverse effect, especially in Mg<sub>3</sub>Bi<sub>2</sub>-type compounds due to sensitive carrier boundary scattering. This study reveals that homogenizing the composition in Mg<sub>3</sub>(Bi, Sb)<sub>2</sub> from macro- to nano-scale improves both electrical and thermal transport properties. Suppressed compositional fluctuation enhances weighted mobility, resulting in a remarkable average power factor of 28.2 μW cm<sup>−1</sup> K<sup>−2</sup> (300–523 K) among Bi-rich Mg<sub>3</sub>(Bi, Sb)<sub>2</sub> compounds. Increased carrier concentration from restrained Mg loss mitigates the typical bipolar thermal conductivity effects at high temperatures. Consequently, a room-temperature <em>zT</em> of 0.78 and peak <em>zT</em> of 1.27 are achieved, with an exceptional average <em>zT</em> of 1.09 within the particularly useful 300–523 K temperature range. A two-pair module of Mg<sub>3</sub>(Bi, Sb)<sub>2</sub>/MgAgSb shows simultaneously high conversion efficiency of 8.3 % and power density of 0.37 W cm<sup>−2</sup> under 294 K temperature difference, validating their potential for low-grade waste heat harvesting. These intriguing results demonstrate an unconventional strategy for enhancing thermoelectric performance via compositional fluctuation control.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":394,"journal":{"name":"Nano Energy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 110797"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143435302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-16DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110791
Wuliang Sun , Xiukun Hang , Xiaobo Gao , Hao Li , Huisheng Cai , Jinlu He , Ding Nan , Hongfei Guo , Baodong Chen
{"title":"Multidimensional charge-enhanced interface by skin-like inflammatory response for visual bacterial pre-diagnosis","authors":"Wuliang Sun , Xiukun Hang , Xiaobo Gao , Hao Li , Huisheng Cai , Jinlu He , Ding Nan , Hongfei Guo , Baodong Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110791","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110791","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Visual diagnosis techniques can provide intuitive results for detecting bacterial infection of wound, where the detection speed and intuitiveness directly affect the treatment efficiency. Here, we present a bionic charge-enhanced interface (BCEI), and show the utility to reverse the visual preclinical diagnosis of bacterial infections. The BCEI inspired by skin-like immune emergency response that achieve the fast, accurate, and portable visual identification of bacterial metabolites by multidimensional design and charge-enhanced effect. Aim to enable a strong adsorption and immobilization of gases markers of inflammatory response, in which it provides a 60 % improvement in color change (White turns to black) capability for detecting bacterial metabolic Hydrogen sulfide (H<sub>2</sub>S) gas, a 37.5 % reduction in response time and a detection limit as low as 0.5 ppm. The detection capability of (<em>E. coli</em> infection group) and (<em>S. aureus</em> infection group) is improved by 65 % and 20 %, respectively. Furthermore, develop a wound status early warning system for visual bacterial pre-diagnosis, enabling to access wound conditions timely, accurately, and provide remote diagnosis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":394,"journal":{"name":"Nano Energy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 110791"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143418003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-15DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110790
Hao Sun , Longwei Li , Lu-Qi Tao , Hongxiang Xue , Xiong Pu , Sheng-Yuan Xia , Fuchun Sun
{"title":"An intelligent multifunction graphene skin patch for ear health monitoring and acoustic interaction","authors":"Hao Sun , Longwei Li , Lu-Qi Tao , Hongxiang Xue , Xiong Pu , Sheng-Yuan Xia , Fuchun Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110790","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110790","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prolonged exposure to damaging auditory conditions can lead to significant health issues, including hearing impairment and inflammation of the ear canal. We present an intelligent multifunction graphene skin patch (GSP) that integrates health monitoring and high-quality acoustic interaction to address these challenges. Comprising laser-induced graphene (LIG), PI fabric, and Nomex fabric, GSP utilizes triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), thermosensitive (TS), and thermoacoustic (TA) effects to provide multimodal sensing of external auditory canal health while delivering superior audio quality. GSP demonstrates rapid response and high sensitivity (1.286 kPa⁻¹), along with remarkable durability (12,000 cycles) for precise monitoring of pulse and temperature variations (4/ °C). By employing pulse density modulation, we significantly reduce total harmonic distortion from 97.6 % to 2.98 %, ensuring exceptional sound fidelity at low frequencies. Moreover, through deep learning analysis, the accuracy of acoustic data processing improved from 47.1 % to 98.2 %. GSP’s multifunctionality enables an integrated health monitoring and warning system, enhancing human-machine interaction. This innovative approach not only bridges the gap between monitoring and rehabilitation but also sets a novel standard for wearable health solutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":394,"journal":{"name":"Nano Energy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 110790"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143418004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-14DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110778
Guoyao Ouyang , Yilong Wang , Jie Su , Mengchen Ren , Minghao Zhang , Minghui Cao
{"title":"Flexible Co-TCPP nanosheet-based memristor for neuromorphic computing and simulation of human water turnover at different temperatures","authors":"Guoyao Ouyang , Yilong Wang , Jie Su , Mengchen Ren , Minghao Zhang , Minghui Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110778","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110778","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The integration of memristors and temperature sensors enables high-precision temperature recognition and real-time monitoring. Importantly, understanding the impact of temperature variations on the human body is also critical. In this study, the Co-TCPP (TCPP: 4 (4-carboxyphenyl)) nanosheet-based memristor demonstrates typical synaptic plasticity at a low operating voltage of 160 mV, with synaptic characteristics remaining well-preserved even after 2000 bending cycles with a 5 mm radius. The neuromorphic system constructed using flexible Co-TCPP nanosheet-based memristor achieves a recognition accuracy of up to 95.99 %, meanwhile has a faster pixel image reconstruction speed. Notably, the Co-TCPP nanosheet-based memristor and NTC (negative temperature coefficient) temperature sensor effectively simulate moisture turnover at different temperatures. As the temperature increases, both moisture consumption and replenishment rise accordingly. These results highlight the significant potential of this approach in artificial intelligence and the future development of bionic robots.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":394,"journal":{"name":"Nano Energy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 110778"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143418333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fountain-inspired triboelectric nanogenerator as rotary energy harvester and self-powered intelligent sensor","authors":"Gefan Yin , Xuexiu Liang , Ying Zhang , Jian Li , Shimin Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110779","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110779","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Toward the era of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled smart rehabilitation and healthcare, wearable electronic devices that can accurately capture human motion and physiological signals are receiving more and more attention. However, existing devices still have limitations regarding energy supply, sensitivity, structural flexibility, fabrication cost, and system integration. Here, we proposed a wearable fountain-inspired triboelectric nanogenerator (FI-TENG) assisted by machine learning. The continuous sliding fountain-inspired structure can realize the effective amplification of the triboelectric layer displacement and positive pressure, and improve the shortcomings of the traditional TENG structure, such as poor electrical output performance, narrow sensing range and difficult to effectively sense the negative angle. By optimizing the design of the triangular displacement amplification angle, the tightened gap width, and the thickness of the sliding polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film, the performance of the optimal solution was improved by 70 % compared to the worst solution. The inconsistency between human body motion and TENG displacement direction was solved by introducing a slider-crank mechanism, which smoothly transformed the joint rotational motion into a linear motion of the slider. Due to its unique structural design, FI-TENG could efficiently harvest and accurately sense the positive and negative rotational motions of the human body's rotational joints, rehabilitation beds, and six-axis robots. As an energy application, when FI-TENG was installed in the wrist joint as a test environment, its maximum output power density could reach 64.65 mW/m<sup>2</sup> (rotation angle, frequency, and load resistance of 60°, 1 Hz, and 80MΩ). Based on the random forest (RF) machine learning method and intelligent microcontroller, an edge-AI intelligent system for human wrist rotation direction recognition was established. Finally, combined with the MobileNetV3-Small lightweight neural network, intelligent recognition based on two-dimensional (2D) images with higher accuracy (average accuracy of 97.56 %) was realized. The proposed FI-TENG shows potential application value in the fields of telemedicine monitoring, rehabilitation assistance devices and humanoid robots.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":394,"journal":{"name":"Nano Energy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 110779"},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143418006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano EnergyPub Date : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110781
Jianqiushi Ma, Xuhui Sun, Yi liu, Liwei Wang, Meng An, Minjun Kim, Yusuke Yamauchi, Nithima Khaorapapong, Zhanhui Yuan
{"title":"Bio-inspired Micro-architecturing of 3D Aerogel Evaporator for Highly Efficient Solar Seawater Desalination","authors":"Jianqiushi Ma, Xuhui Sun, Yi liu, Liwei Wang, Meng An, Minjun Kim, Yusuke Yamauchi, Nithima Khaorapapong, Zhanhui Yuan","doi":"10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.110781","url":null,"abstract":"Solar interface evaporators for desalination have gained a growing research interest due to its potential for sustainable water production. However, an efficient balance in performance for heat management, water transport, and salt tolerance and rejection is rather difficult to achieve in actual applications. Inspired by the vascular bundles arranged in order in parenchyma cells of seagrass, this study reports the vertical arrangement of 3D aerogel formed by the hybridization of sodium alginate and reduced graphene oxide (denoted as SrGAE) to demonstrate a highly efficient solar interfacial evaporation for desalination. Due to the biomimetic macro-architecture with vertically arranged channels, SrGAE successfully achieves a shortened distance for water transmission and expanded channel for salt discharge in comparison to a traditional evaporator. Furthermore, SrGAE can absorb external energy through evaporative cooling and reduce the water-evaporation enthalpy, achieving an excellent solar-steam conversion efficiency. Such properties of SrGAE enable a continuous evaporation of 20 wt.% brine for 8 hours under one sun illumination, thus achieving an evaporation rate of 3.7 kg·m<sup>-2</sup>·h<sup>-</sup>¹ and an outstanding solar-vapor conversion efficiency of 106 %.","PeriodicalId":394,"journal":{"name":"Nano Energy","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143418060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}