Nanocomposite Hydrogel Actuators with Ordered Structures: From Nanoscale Control to Macroscale Deformations

X Yao, H Chen, H Qin, HP Cong - Small Methods, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible intelligent actuators with the characteristics of flexibility, safety and scalability, are
highly promising in industrial production, biomedical fields, environmental monitoring, and …

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 …

Fabrication of a facile self-floating lignin-based carbon Janus evaporators for efficient and stable solar desalination

W Li, T Li, B Deng, T Xu, G Wang, W Hu… - Advanced Composites and …, 2024 - Springer
Desalination with solar-driven photothermal evaporator is extremely attractive for tackling
the current freshwater shortage of humanity, and a scalable and efficient interfacial solar …

Recent Advances of Green Electricity Generation: Potential in Solar Interfacial Evaporation System

J Wang, X Cao, X Cui, H Wang, H Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) has played a pivotal role in optimizing water‐
energy utilization, reducing conventional power costs, and mitigating environmental impacts …

The “Pudding Effect” to Promote Solar‐Driving Water Purification

J Mingot, S Lanzalaco, A Àgueda… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The use of solar energy (natural) and synthetic solar absorber hydrogels (SAHs) for
purification of brackish water represent a challenge. Here in, this work reports the …

Thermal-gated polyanionic hydrogel films for stable and smart aqueous batteries

Z Zhuang, Z Yu, J Yang, L Chen, T Xiao, R Fu… - Energy Storage …, 2024 - Elsevier
Achieving intelligent and efficient self-protection stands as the cornerstone for ensuring
battery stability and safety. Herein a thermoresponsive polyanionic hydrogel film is proposed …

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 …

Polyoxometalates‐Modulated Hydrophilic‐Hydrophobic Composite Interfacial Material for Efficient Solar Water Evaporation and Salt Harvesting in High‐Salinity Brine

S Cheng, C Liu, Y Li, H Tan, Y Wang… - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Solar vapor generation (SVG) represents a promising technique for seawater desalination to
alleviate the global water crisis and energy shortage. One of its main bottleneck problems is …

Bioinspired design of integral molded Janus silk fibroin-MXene evaporator for efficient solar vapor generation

LQ Kong, ZC Zeng, GZ Min, ZH Meng, GQ Meng… - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
Solar vapor generation is a promising sustainable technology that uses solar distillation to
produce fresh water from seawater and wastewater, helping relieve global water resource …

Excellent solar-driven interface evaporation by an oil repellence Janus photothermal membrane for oily wastewater treatment

W Luo, J Zhang, M Liu, A Yi, R Jiao, Z Zhu, J Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar-driven interface evaporation (SDIE) is considered to be a crucial solution for the global
water shortage due to its ability to directly produce fresh water with minimal carbon footprint …