Low Cost, Robust, Environmentally Friendly Geopolymer–Mesoporous Carbon Composites for Efficient Solar Powered Steam Generation

Professor Bob Bradley and his company Matsurf Technology UK Ltd. has recently published in the Journal of Advanced Functional Materials work on a new solar powered desalination unit. The device, which is free-floating, uses a solar-capture layer produced from a biowaste derived mesoporous carbon (BMC) supported on a capillary geopolymer and has one of the highest saline to steam conversion rates ever reported (7.55 kg m⁻² h⁻¹).