Although seawater is abundant, desalination is energy intensive and expensive. Using the
Sun as an energy source is attractive for desalinating seawater. Although interesting, current …

The energy shortage and clean water scarcity are two key challenges for global sustainable
development. Near half of the total global water withdrawals is consumed by power …

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) …

Water desalination has become one of the viable solutions for water shortages in regions
with limited natural resources. In the last two decades, more attention has been paid to …

Utilizing the" waste heat" of solar cells for desalination enables the simultaneous production
of freshwater and electricity and represents low barrier-of-entry electricity and freshwater …

The urgency of addressing water scarcity and exponential population rise has necessitated
the use of sustainable desalination for clean water production, while conventional thermal …

Inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene in remote locations, developing countries,
and disaster zones fuel the growing demand for efficient small-scale desalination …

Membrane distillation is an attractive technology for solar-powered decentralized
desalination that has not yet reached commercial breakthrough on a large scale. The main …

Although solar-driven reverse distillation integrated with thermal localization has recently
shown attractive solar-to-water conversion efficiency, effective salt rejection/discharge …

Membrane distillation (MD) has been proven promising in solar-driven desalination.
Moreover, its unique characteristics such as simple process, module compactness, high salt …