Renewable energy sources are expected to provide viable alternative solutions for water
desalination to address the issues of high-energy consumption and negative environmental …

Freshwater production is one of the biggest global challenges today. Though desalination
can provide a climate‐independent source of clean water, the process requires a high …

Further reduction in energy consumption is an attractive prospect for both well-established
technologies such as reverse osmosis and electrodialysis, and for emerging desalination …

Solar–thermal water evaporation (SWE) has received much interest in recent years due to a
few seminal works on materials innovation and thermal management. With many studies …

Although solar energy is promising for water purification, there is still a room for further
improving the solar steam generation efficiency. Herein, an environmental energy-enhanced …

Growing uncertainty in the future availability of freshwater sources has led to an increase in
installations for desalination of seawater. Reverse osmosis (RO), currently the most widely …

Water and energy are critical components for human, and govern the growth and progress of
societies. Desalination is an important process to meet ever-increasing water demand …

Membrane distillation (MD) lags behind other desalination processes such as reverse
osmosis due to relatively high energy consumption. Heating in membrane distillation forms a …

Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising technology for seawater desalination, integrating
the advantages of both membrane segregation and thermal distillation. High energy …

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are an emerging class of highly porous crystalline
organic polymers comprised entirely of organic linkers connected by strong covalent bonds …