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Lijie Liu, Huajian Liu, Huiyue Wang, Kuankuan Liu, Guixin Hu, Yan She, Xueying Wen, Hangyuan Du, Lingling Feng, Jiang Gong. Converting waste polyimide into porous carbon nanofiber for all-weather freshwater and hydroelectricity generation. Green Energy&Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2025.06.004
Citation: Lijie Liu, Huajian Liu, Huiyue Wang, Kuankuan Liu, Guixin Hu, Yan She, Xueying Wen, Hangyuan Du, Lingling Feng, Jiang Gong. Converting waste polyimide into porous carbon nanofiber for all-weather freshwater and hydroelectricity generation. Green Energy&Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2025.06.004
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Converting waste polyimide into porous carbon nanofiber for all-weather freshwater and hydroelectricity generation

doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2025.06.004

  • Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, Hubei Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials and Medical Protective Materials, Semiconductor Chemistry Center, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China

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The present work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52373099) and the Innovation and Talent Recruitment Base of New Energy Chemistry and Device (No. B21003). The authors are grateful to the Analytical and Testing Centre of HUST for access to their facilities. The authors extend their gratitude to Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Team from Shiyanjia Lab (www.shiyanjia.com) for providing invaluable assistance.

  • Received date 20 March 2025, Accepted date 13 June 2025, RevRecd date 20 May 2025, Available online 20 June 2025
    Abstract
  • The dual system capable of solar-driven interfacial steam production and all-weather hydropower generation is emerging as a potential way to alleviate freshwater shortage and energy crisis. However, the intrinsic mechanism of hydroelectric electricity generation powered by the interaction between seawater and material structure is vague, and it remains challenging to develop dual-functional evaporators with high photothermal conversion efficiency and ionic selectivity. Herein, an all-weather dual-function evaporator based on porous carbon fiber-like (PCF) is acquired through the pyrolysis of barium-based metal-organic framework (Ba-BTEC), which is originated from waste polyimide. The PCF-based evaporator/device exhibits a high steam generation rate of 2.93 kg m-2 h-1 in seawater under 1 kW m-2 irradiation, along with the notable open-circuit voltage of 0.32 V, owing to the good light absorption ability, optimal wettability, and suitable aperture size. Moreover, molecular dynamics simulation result reveals that Na+ tends to migrate rapidly within the nanoporous channels of PCF, owing to a strong affinity between oxygen-containing functional group and water molecule. This work not only proposes an eco-friendly strategy for constructing low-cost full-time freshwater-hydroelectric co-generation device, but also contributes to the understanding of evaporation-driven energy harvesting technology.

     

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