Biradical-Featured Stable Organic-Small-Molecule Photothermal Materials for Highly Efficient Solar-Driven Water Evaporation

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 32(2020), 29 vom: 09. Juli, Seite e1908537
1. Verfasser: Chen, Guanyu (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Sun, Jiangman, Peng, Qian, Sun, Qi, Wang, Guan, Cai, Yuanjing, Gu, Xinggui, Shuai, Zhigang, Tang, Ben Zhong
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article biradical character croconium dyes photothermal conversion solar-driven water evaporation
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:© 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
With recent progress in photothermal materials, organic small molecules featured with flexibility, diverse structures, and tunable properties exhibit unique advantages but have been rarely applied in solar-driven water evaporation owing to limited sunlight absorption resulting in low solar-thermal conversion. Herein, a stable croconium derivative, named CR-TPE-T, is designed to exhibit the unique biradical property and strong π-π stacking in the solid state, which facilitate not only a broad absorption spectrum from 300 to 1600 nm for effective sunlight harvesting, but also highly efficient photothermal conversion by boosting nonradiative decay. The photothermal efficiency is evaluated to be 72.7% under 808 nm laser irradiation. Based on this, an interfacial-heating evaporation system based on CR-TPE-T is established successfully, using which a high solar-energy-to-vapor efficiency of 87.2% and water evaporation rate of 1.272 kg m-2 h-1 under 1 sun irradiation are obtained, thus making an important step toward the application of organic-small-molecule photothermal materials in solar energy utilization
Beschreibung:Date Revised 30.09.2020
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.201908537