{"id":2748,"date":"2016-10-29T02:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T02:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2016-10-29T02:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T02:51:02","slug":"photo-desalination-there-is-more-than-one-way-of-winning-the-battle-against-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=2748","title":{"rendered":"Photo-desalination: There is more than One Way of Winning the Battle against Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/photodesalination-TOC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1112\" title=\"Cover Final\" src=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/photodesalination-TOC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In our Advanced Energy Materials 2016 paper, we have successfully synthesized ultra-black TiO<sub>2-x<\/sub> nanoparticles for water evaporation by coating and superhydrophobization of them on a stainless steel mesh. Increase of x in TiO<sub>2-x<\/sub> resulted in a darker material leading to more efficient solar energy to heat conversion and thus more efficient water evaporation. We believe that the high solar thermal conversion efficiency, low cost, low-toxicity, and good chemical stability make black TiO<sub>2-x<\/sub> nanoparticles a potentially useful material for converting solar energy to thermal energy for evaporation of seawater or brackish water in remote and rural areas where access to a centralized drinking water supply is unavailable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full article can be read on the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/aenm.201601811\/full\"> Advanced Energy Materials<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our Advanced Energy Materials 2016 paper, we have successfully synthesized ultra-black TiO2-x nanoparticles for water evaporation by coating and superhydrophobization of them on a stainless steel mesh. Increase of x in TiO2-x resulted in a darker material leading to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=2748\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}