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祝贺博士生张治斌论文被ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces接收(SCI一区Top期刊)
发布时间:2022-12-01

Title & Link: Sustainable hierarchical-pored PAAS-PNIPAAm hydrogel with core-shell structure tailored for highly efficient atmospheric water harvesting


Abstract: As an effective way to obtain freshwater resources, atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) technology has been widely concerned by researchers. Therefore, hydrogels gradually become key materials for atmospheric water harvesters due to their high specific surface area and three-dimensional porous structure. Here, we construct a core-shell hydrogel-based atmospheric water harvesting material consisting of a shell sodium polyacrylate (PAAS) hydrogel with an open pore structure and a core thermosensitive poly N-isopropyl acrylamide (PNIPAAm) hydrogel with large pore size. Theoretically, the mutual synergistic hygroscopic effect between the core layer and the shell layer accelerates the capture, transport, and storage of moisture to achieve continuous and high-capacity moisture adsorption. Simultaneously, the integration of polydopamine (PDA) with the hydrogel realizes solar-driven photothermal evaporation. Therefore, the prepared core-shell hydrogel material possesses great advantages in water adsorption capacity and water desorption capacity with adsorption of 2.76 g g-1 (90% RH) and desorption of 1.42 kg m-2 h-1. Additionally, the core-shell structure hydrogel collects 1.31 g g-1 day-1 of fresh water in outdoor experiments, which verifies that this core-shell hydrogel with integrated photothermal properties can capture moisture in a wide range of humidity without any external energy consumption, further can sustainably obtain fresh water in remote water-shortage areas.