A wood-inspired bimodal solar-driven evaporator for highly efficient and durable purification of high-salinity wastewater

The designed WBE breaks the trade-off between water evaporation and salt resistance, achieving ultrahigh water evaporation capacity (3.02 kg m −2 h −1 ) and long-term salt resistance (continuous 100 h in 20 wt% brine) under 1 sun irradiation.