Water activation in solar‐powered vapor generation

D Wei, C Wang, J Zhang, H Zhao, Y Asakura… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐powered vapor evaporation (SVG), based on the liquid‐gas phase conversion
concept using solar energy, has been given close attention as a promising technology to …

Hydrogel materials for sustainable water resources harvesting & treatment: Synthesis, mechanism and applications

Z Zhang, H Fu, Z Li, J Huang, Z Xu, Y Lai, X Qian… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, with the development of global industry and the increase of
population, the shortage of freshwater resources has prompted people to conduct in-depth …

Fully lignocellulosic biomass‐based double‐layered porous hydrogel for efficient solar steam generation

X Lin, P Wang, R Hong, X Zhu, Y Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial evaporation is an important approach for solving the issue of
freshwater scarcity. However, the practical application of solar steam generation is hindered …

Polyzwitterionic hydrogels for highly efficient high salinity solar desalination

C Lei, W Guan, Y Guo, W Shi, Y Wang… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Interfacial solar vapor generation (SVG) is regarded as a promising and sustainable strategy
for clean water production. While many materials have demonstrated excellent evaporation …

Cellulose‐based Interfacial Solar Evaporators: Structural Regulation and Performance Manipulation

W Wu, Y Xu, X Ma, Z Tian, C Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The shortage of freshwater resources has become a major obstacle threatening human
development, and directly utilizing solar energy by solar evaporators is emerging as a …

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation for water treatment: advanced research progress and challenges

J Li, Y Jing, G Xing, M Liu, Y Cui, H Sun… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) using the widely distributed solar energy as the
driving force and simple and portable photothermal evaporation structures as the core …

Solar water evaporation toward water purification and beyond

X Zhou, F Zhao, P Zhang, G Yu - ACS Materials Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
With the pressing global energy and environmental issues, solar water evaporation (SWE),
which generates vapor using solar energy, emerges as a promising and sustainable …

Super‐fast fog collector based on self‐driven jet of mini fog droplets

D Yan, Y Chen, J Liu, J Song - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater scarcity crisis threatens human life and economic security. Collecting water from
the fog seems to be an effective method to defuse this crisis. Nonetheless, the existing fog …

Interfacial solar evaporation: from fundamental research to applications

X Wu, Y Lu, X Ren, P Wu, D Chu, X Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, interfacial solar steam generation (ISSG), powered by natural sunlight
garnered significant attention due to its great potential for low‐cost and environmentally …

Boosting the viable water harvesting in solar vapor generation: from interfacial engineering to devices design

P Zhang, H Wang, J Wang, Z Ji, L Qu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Continuously increasing demand for the life‐critical water resource induces severe global
water shortages. It is imperative to advance effective, economic, and environmentally …