title: Tailoring Graphene Oxide-Based Aerogels for Efficient Solar Steam Generation under One Sun.
abstract: Graphene oxide-based aerogels with carefully tailored properties are developed to enable efficient solar steam generation. Aerogels, with inherent porous structures, are excellent thermal insulators and provide channels for water supply and vapor escape. With enhanced absorption and hydrophilicity by incorporation of carbon nanotubes and sodium alginate, the resulting aerogels can enable efficient (≈83%) solar steam generation under one-sun illumination.
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, 16 Jinyin Street, Nanjing, 210093, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Xiaozhen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, 16 Jinyin Street, Nanjing, 210093, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Weichao
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, 16 Jinyin Street, Nanjing, 210093, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, 16 Jinyin Street, Nanjing, 210093, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yingling
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, 16 Jinyin Street, Nanjing, 210093, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, 16 Jinyin Street, Nanjing, 210093, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Shining
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, 16 Jinyin Street, Nanjing, 210093, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
keywords: aerogels; graphene oxide; one sun; solar steam generation