Laser-Etched Metal Purifies Contaminated Water Using Sunlight With Greater Than 100% Efficiency
15th July 2020
In a paper in Nature Sustainability, researchers in the laboratory of Chunlei Guo, professor of optics, demonstrate how a burst of femtosecond laser pulses etch the surface of a normal sheet of aluminum into a superwicking (water-attracting), super energy-absorbing material.