Refractory plasmonic material based floating solar still for simultaneous desalination and electricity generation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Floating interfacial solar evaporation offers a land-saving, eco-friendly, and low-infrastructure alternative for freshwater production. However, challenges include maximizing heat localization, preventing salt accumulation, and operating under harsh environmental conditions. This work demonstrates a plasmonic titanium carbide (TiC) nanoparticle (NP)-based floating solar desalination system that produces clean water using sunlight on saline water sources. The components of the floating still were carefully chosen to optimize freshwater output, with TiC produced by upcycling tire waste. Outdoor experiments in Halifax, Canada, where solar insolation reached around 6 kW m −2 day −1 , resulted in daily water yields of up to 3.67 L m −2 , corresponding to a solar-to-vapor conversion efficiency of 40%. Water can be produced at a cost of $0.0086 L −1 , and the still can be modified to generate thermoelectricity, enabling small onboard devices to test water quality without external electricity. This study contributes to the development of scalable floating solar desalination systems, providing potable water for water-stressed communities.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it