Directional‐Thermal‐Conductive Phase Change Composites Enabling Efficient and Durable Water‐Electricity Co‐Generation Beyond Daytime (Adv. Energy Mater. 43/2024)

Water-Electricity Co-Generation In article number 2402926, Zheng Bo, Guoping Xiong, and co-workers propose a new concept of directional-thermal-conductive phase change composites, which effectively improves the heat exchange between phase change composites and photothermal evaporators/thermoelectric modules, and minimizes the heat dissipation to surrounding environments simultaneously, realizing efficient and durable water-electricity co-generation beyond daytime. This work provides a viable but simple solution to address global freshwater and energy scarcity.