Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Xiangyu Li, Yang Zhong, Arny Leroy, Zhenyuan Xu, and Lin Zhao for their recent solar evaporation being featured in a Nature Communications Editors’ highlights of “Materials science and chemistry” and “Devices“! In this work, we prototyped a highly efficient and salt rejecting solar evaporation device by engineering the fluidic flow in a wick-free confined water layer, which elucidates the fundamentals of salt transport and offers a low-cost strategy for high-performance solar evaporation.

Read more about this work on MIT News and read the paper here.