Solar‐Mechano Symbiosis Dual‐Mode Janus Bioaerogel for Context‐Adaptive Atmospheric Water Harvesting Beyond Solar Reliance
Solar-driven sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SS-AWH) offers promise for addressing global freshwater scarcity. However, the SS-AWH heavily relies on favorable and sustained solar irradiation; yet real-world solar irradiation exhibits significant spatiotemporal fluctuations, limiting its sustainable application, as non/low-light conditions sharply reduce water productivity. This constraint is fundamentally due to the singleness of the water release pathway via photothermal desorption. Here, a novel dual-mode bio-based Janus aerogel (DBJA) is presented, enabling efficient, all-weather, multi-scenario atmospheric water harvesting via selectively solar-driven and compression-activated water release. The Janus structure optimizes mass/heat transfer between hygroscopic and photothermal domains, achieving the most balanced adsorption-desorption kinetics and compression-recovery strength for solar-mechano symbiosis. Under favorable sunlight, DBJA demonstrates a competitive water release efficiency of 1.32 g g<sup>-1</sup> day<sup>-1</sup> outdoors. Crucially, without solar irradiation, DBJA achieves a total water productivity of 12.80 g g<sup>-1</sup> over 5-cycle adsorption-compression with 98% volume recovery and is stable within 50 cycles. Enhanced physical inlay and multiple chemical interactions ensure limited leakage of Li<sup>+</sup> ions during compression, and the collected water easily conforms to the World Health Organization (WHO) drinking water standards. This work provides a flexible approach for sustainable atmospheric water harvesting beyond solar reliance through multi-mode synergy and gradient architecture.
Authors
- Rui Feng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8625-6765)
- Sibi Liu
- Xiaoya Guo
- Yuyao Zhao
- Xuanhua Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3243-3567)
- Yipeng Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-6844)
- Yijin Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2340-0037)
- Jinmeng Zhu
- Jinghan Ding
Institutions
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
- Northwestern Polytechnical University (CN)
- State Administration of Cultural Heritage (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
- Published
- 2025-08-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202512244
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.91
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities