Li Xiuqiang, Xie Wanrong, Zhu Jia
Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) & Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, Mommsenstrasse 4, Dresden, 01062, Germany.
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Adv Sci (Weinh). 2022 Feb;9(6):e2104181. doi: 10.1002/advs.202104181. Epub 2022 Jan 12.
Interfacial solar steam/vapor technology uses abundant and clean solar energy and water to achieve heating and cooling, a promising technology to alleviate environmental and energy issues. To obtain higher conversion and utilization efficiency, designing and optimizing materials, structures, and devices of interfacial solar steam/vapor technologies attract the attention of the research community. Given the significant progress made in the past 5 years, it is valuable to systematically summarize and discuss recent developments and future trends in this new multidisciplinary direction. This review aims to introduce interfacial solar steam/vapor principles to realize heating and cooling and the recent progress in materials, structures, devices, and applications. Meanwhile, some unsolved scientific and technical problems with outlook will also be discussed, hoping to promote further the rapid development and application of interfacial solar steam/vapor technology in heating and cooling to alleviate energy and environmental problems.
界面太阳能蒸汽/水汽技术利用丰富且清洁的太阳能和水来实现加热和冷却，是一种缓解环境和能源问题的很有前景的技术。为了获得更高的转换和利用效率，设计和优化界面太阳能蒸汽/水汽技术的材料、结构和器件吸引了研究界的关注。鉴于过去五年取得的重大进展，系统总结和讨论这一新兴多学科方向的最新发展和未来趋势很有价值。本综述旨在介绍实现加热和冷却的界面太阳能蒸汽/水汽原理以及材料、结构、器件和应用方面的最新进展。同时，还将讨论一些尚未解决的科学技术问题并展望未来，希望进一步推动界面太阳能蒸汽/水汽技术在加热和冷却方面的快速发展和应用，以缓解能源和环境问题。
