Plant leaves inspired sunlight-driven purifier for high-efficiency clean water production

Natural leaves can purify water under sunlight through a combination of osmotic pressure, transpiration, and guttation effects. Here the authors design a composite material mimicking these combined effects, achieving sunlight-driven pure water production from brine with high collection rate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hongya Geng, Qiang Xu, Mingmao Wu, Hongyun Ma, Panpan Zhang, Tiantian Gao, Liangti Qu, Tianbao Ma, Chun Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09535-w