High‐yield and low‐cost solar water purification via hydrogel‐based membrane distillation

H Lu, W Shi, F Zhao, W Zhang, P Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As an eco‐friendly means, solar water purification has attracted substantial research interest
regarding material design, system engineering, and energy management. However, the low …

Bio-derived ultrathin membrane for solar driven water purification

X Han, W Wang, K Zuo, L Chen, L Yuan, J Liang, Q Li… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Harvesting solar energy for water purification is an efficient and sustainable way to produce
clean water. Herein, we demonstrate a bio-derived free-standing ultrathin membrane …

Advances in solar evaporator materials for freshwater generation

S Cao, Q Jiang, X Wu, D Ghim, HG Derami… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
To alleviate the scarcity of clean water, solar steam generation, which utilizes the green and
abundant resources of Earth, has attracted considerable attention and been recognized as a …

Solar seawater distillation by flexible and fully passive multistage membrane distillation

W Wang, Y Shi, C Zhang, R Li, M Wu, S Zhuo… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Solar-assisted distillation is considered promising to solve the freshwater supply for off-grid
communities. In this work, a passive and flexible multistage membrane distillation (F-MSMD) …

Architecting highly hydratable polymer networks to tune the water state for solar water purification

X Zhou, F Zhao, Y Guo, B Rosenberger, G Yu - Science Advances, 2019 - science.org
Water purification by solar distillation is a promising technology to produce fresh water.
However, solar vapor generation, is energy intensive, leading to a low water yield under …

[HTML][HTML] Graphene array-based anti-fouling solar vapour gap membrane distillation with high energy efficiency

B Gong, H Yang, S Wu, G Xiong, J Yan, K Cen, Z Bo… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2019 - Springer
Photothermal membrane distillation (MD) is a promising technology for desalination and
water purification. However, solar-thermal conversion suffers from low energy efficiency (a …

Highly efficient water harvesting with optimized solar thermal membrane distillation device

G Xue, Q Chen, S Lin, J Duan, P Yang, K Liu… - Global …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Water distillation with solar thermal technology could be one of the most promising way to
address the global freshwater scarcity, with its low cost and minimum environmental …

Superstructure-enabled anti-fouling membrane for efficient photothermal distillation

B Gong, H Yang, S Wu, J Yan, K Cen, Z Bo… - ACS Sustainable …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Photothermal membrane distillation (MD) combining solar harvesting and heat localization
is a rapidly emerging technology for water purification and desalination. However, state-of …

A thermally engineered polydopamine and bacterial nanocellulose bilayer membrane for photothermal membrane distillation with bactericidal capability

X Wu, S Cao, D Ghim, Q Jiang, S Singamaneni, YS Jun - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar energy holds great promise for sustainable desalination to alleviate global water
scarcity. Recently developed solar steam generation relying on interfacial evaporators has …

Hydrogels as an emerging material platform for solar water purification

X Zhou, Y Guo, F Zhao, G Yu - Accounts of chemical research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Growing concern over water scarcity leads to increased research interest in
advanced water purification technologies. Solar water purification, which uses solar energy …