A natural gain strategy of passive cycling water vapour escape toward efficient freshwater purification

L Mi, Z Zhang, X Zhang, C Han, W Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar interfacial evaporation offers an economical and efficient solution to the global
shortage of freshwater resources, and the introduction of the side evaporation surface brings …

Bioinspired structural and functional designs towards interfacial solar steam generation for clean water production

X Dong, S Gao, S Li, T Zhu, J Huang… - Materials Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fresh water shortage is rapidly emerging as a global crisis, threatening the future
development of human society. Extracting fresh water from seawater, wastewater and even …

Water bridge solar evaporator with salt-resistance and heat localization for efficient desalination

YQ Luo, F Song, XL Wang, YZ Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Inadequate freshwater supply in remote and developing areas has motivated the growing
demand for cost-effective and efficient desalination technologies. Solar-driven interfacial …

Three-Dimensional Spiral Evaporator with Side Channels for Efficient Solar-Driven Water Purification

M Zhao, C Hu, J Liu, MY Han, RJ Pan… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Solar evaporators have the advantages of not consuming fossil fuels, being environmentally
friendly, and nonpolluting, offering a promising sustainable method to obtain fresh water and …

A high-efficient and ultra-strong interfacial solar evaporator based on carbon-fiber fabric for seawater and wastewater purification

D Tong, B Song - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Interfacial solar-driven water evaporation is an effective strategy to solve freshwater scarcity.
Efficient interfacial evaporation comes from excellent photothermal material. Herein, we …

A thermally insulated solar evaporator coupled with a passive condenser for freshwater collection

S Cheng, Z Sun, Y Wu, P Gao, J He, Z Yin… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Using solar energy to generate vapor and using passive freshwater collectors are
sustainable and eco-friendly approaches to address the issue of clean water scarcity. The …

All-day freshwater harvesting by selective solar absorption and radiative cooling

Z Xi, S Li, L Yu, H Yan, M Chen - ACS applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Solar interfacial evaporation for freshwater harvesting has received attention recently due to
its high evaporation rate and environmental friendliness. Traditional interfacial evaporation …

Leveraging hydrophilic hierarchical channels to regulate excessive water for high-efficiency solar steam yield

G Zhao, Z Wang, Y Chen, L Ren, L Pan… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Both the solar absorptance and water content in solar-driven interface evaporation (SDIE)
devices are of equal importance for efficient solar steam yield and freshwater production, but …

Design of a separated solar interfacial evaporation system for simultaneous water and salt collection

K Chen, L Li, J Zhang - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SIE) is very promising to alleviate the freshwater
scarcity issue. However, salt deposition on the sample surface will reduce evaporation …

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 …