{"status":"public","quality_controlled":"1","title":"Fe2O3 nanoparticles deposited over self-floating facial sponge for facile interfacial seawater solar desalination","alternative_title":["Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials"],"date_created":"2022-01-02T23:01:34Z","user_id":"4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8","oa_version":"Published Version","oa":1,"scopus_import":"1","publisher":"MDPI","issue":"12","publication_status":"published","date_published":"2021-12-03T00:00:00Z","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"A facile approach for developing an interfacial solar evaporator by heat localization of solar-thermal energy conversion at water-air liquid composed by in-situ polymerization of Fe2O3 nanoparticles (Fe2O3@PPy) deposited over a facial sponge is proposed. The demonstrated system consists of a floating solar receiver having a vertically cross-linked microchannel for wicking up saline water. The in situ polymerized Fe2O3@PPy interfacial layer promotes diffuse reflection and its rough black surface allows Omni-directional solar absorption (94%) and facilitates efficient thermal localization at the water/air interface and offers a defect-rich surface to promote heat localization (41.9 °C) and excellent thermal management due to cellulosic content. The self-floating composite foam reveals continuous vapors generation at a rate of 1.52 kg m−2 h−1 under one 1 kW m−2 and profound evaporating efficiency (95%) without heat losses that dissipates in its surroundings. Indeed, long-term evaporation experiments reveal the negligible disparity in continuous evaporation rate (33.84 kg m−2/8.3 h) receiving two sun solar intensity, and ensures the stability of the device under intense seawater conditions synchronized with excellent salt rejection potential. More importantly, Raman spectroscopy investigation validates the orange dye rejection via Fe2O3@PPy solar evaporator. The combined advantages of high efficiency, self-floating capability, multimedia rejection, low cost, and this configuration are promising for producing large-scale solar steam generating systems appropriate for commercial clean water yield due to their scalable fabrication."}],"department":[{"_id":"KiMo"}],"day":"03","type":"journal_article","file":[{"content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"2021_Crystals_Yuzheng.pdf","creator":"alisjak","access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","checksum":"668e9d777608ce0a3bc2e305133bd06b","file_id":"10591","success":1,"date_created":"2022-01-03T09:46:53Z","file_size":4569639,"date_updated":"2022-01-03T09:46:53Z"}],"date_updated":"2023-08-17T06:31:20Z","tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"month":"12","article_processing_charge":"No","isi":1,"file_date_updated":"2022-01-03T09:46:53Z","acknowledgement":"The authors extend their appreciation to King Saud University for funding this work through Researchers Supporting Project number (RSP-2021/387), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.","ddc":["620"],"volume":11,"intvolume":"        11","year":"2021","citation":{"ama":"Lu Y, Arshad N, Irshad MS, et al. Fe2O3 nanoparticles deposited over self-floating facial sponge for facile interfacial seawater solar desalination. <i>Crystals</i>. 2021;11(12). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11121509\">10.3390/cryst11121509</a>","chicago":"Lu, Yuzheng, Naila Arshad, Muhammad Sultan Irshad, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shafiq Ahmad, Lina Abdullah Alshahrani, Muhammad Yousaf, Abdelaty Edrees Sayed, and Muhammad Nauman. “Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Deposited over Self-Floating Facial Sponge for Facile Interfacial Seawater Solar Desalination.” <i>Crystals</i>. MDPI, 2021. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11121509\">https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11121509</a>.","apa":"Lu, Y., Arshad, N., Irshad, M. S., Ahmed, I., Ahmad, S., Alshahrani, L. A., … Nauman, M. (2021). Fe2O3 nanoparticles deposited over self-floating facial sponge for facile interfacial seawater solar desalination. <i>Crystals</i>. MDPI. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11121509\">https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11121509</a>","ista":"Lu Y, Arshad N, Irshad MS, Ahmed I, Ahmad S, Alshahrani LA, Yousaf M, Sayed AE, Nauman M. 2021. Fe2O3 nanoparticles deposited over self-floating facial sponge for facile interfacial seawater solar desalination. Crystals. 11(12), 1509.","short":"Y. Lu, N. Arshad, M.S. Irshad, I. Ahmed, S. Ahmad, L.A. Alshahrani, M. Yousaf, A.E. Sayed, M. Nauman, Crystals 11 (2021).","mla":"Lu, Yuzheng, et al. “Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Deposited over Self-Floating Facial Sponge for Facile Interfacial Seawater Solar Desalination.” <i>Crystals</i>, vol. 11, no. 12, 1509, MDPI, 2021, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11121509\">10.3390/cryst11121509</a>.","ieee":"Y. Lu <i>et al.</i>, “Fe2O3 nanoparticles deposited over self-floating facial sponge for facile interfacial seawater solar desalination,” <i>Crystals</i>, vol. 11, no. 12. MDPI, 2021."},"article_type":"original","_id":"10586","article_number":"1509","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publication":"Crystals","author":[{"last_name":"Lu","first_name":"Yuzheng","full_name":"Lu, Yuzheng"},{"first_name":"Naila","last_name":"Arshad","full_name":"Arshad, Naila"},{"last_name":"Irshad","first_name":"Muhammad Sultan","full_name":"Irshad, Muhammad Sultan"},{"full_name":"Ahmed, Iftikhar","last_name":"Ahmed","first_name":"Iftikhar"},{"last_name":"Ahmad","first_name":"Shafiq","full_name":"Ahmad, Shafiq"},{"full_name":"Alshahrani, Lina Abdullah","last_name":"Alshahrani","first_name":"Lina Abdullah"},{"full_name":"Yousaf, Muhammad","last_name":"Yousaf","first_name":"Muhammad"},{"full_name":"Sayed, Abdelaty Edrees","first_name":"Abdelaty Edrees","last_name":"Sayed"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-2111-4846","full_name":"Nauman, Muhammad","id":"32c21954-2022-11eb-9d5f-af9f93c24e71","first_name":"Muhammad","last_name":"Nauman"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","doi":"10.3390/cryst11121509","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2073-4352"]},"external_id":{"isi":["000736602200001"]}}