In situ MIL-101 growth on cotton cloth to fabricate multifunctional phase change composites driven by solar and magneto-thermal for all-day desalination

Shuang Liu; Mengjie Sheng; Bingqing Quan; Yabi Yang; Qinghong Ji; Xinpeng Hu; Xiang Lu; Jinping Qu

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2024.01.017

In situ MIL-101 growth on cotton cloth to fabricate multifunctional phase change composites driven by solar and magneto-thermal for all-day desalination

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2024 Apr:659:905-913. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.01.017. Epub 2024 Jan 7.

Authors

Shuang Liu¹, Mengjie Sheng¹, Bingqing Quan¹, Yabi Yang¹, Qinghong Ji¹, Xinpeng Hu¹, Xiang Lu², Jinping Qu³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430074, China; Hubei Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials and Medical Protective Materials, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China; Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
² Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430074, China; Hubei Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials and Medical Protective Materials, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China; Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China. Electronic address: luxiang@hust.edu.cn.
³ Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430074, China; Hubei Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials and Medical Protective Materials, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China; Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China; Key Laboratory of Polymer Processing Engineering, South China University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510641, China; National Engineering Research Center of Novel Equipment for Polymer Processing, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Technique and Equipment for Macromolecular Advanced Manufacturing, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China. Electronic address: jpqu@hust.edu.cn.

PMID: 38219309
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.01.017

Abstract

It is certainly one of the most feasible ways to extract fresh water from seawater in the face of the current depletion of fresh water resources. Although solar energy as a heat source for desalination is the cleanest and most abundant way, its intermittent and seasonal also poses an obstacle to its practical application. In order to solve the above-mentioned issues, we prepared a series of phase change composites (PCCs) with excellent light-absorbing and magnetic properties by growing MIL-101(Fe) in situ on cotton fabric. All-day desalination through the synergistic action of phase change material (PCM) and magnetic particles. The evaporation rate of PCC can reach 2.76 kg m^-2h^-1 with an evaporation efficiency of 90.19 % under one sunlight condition. The evaporation rate of sea water under the synergistic effect of magnetic particles and PCM reached 4.53 kg m^-2h^-1 in the absence of sunlight. This paper provides a new approach to all-day desalination without contact heating.

Keywords: MIL-101; Magneto-thermal-driven desalination; Phase change composites; Phase change material; Solar-driven desalination.