Recent advances in carbon‐based materials for solar‐driven interfacial photothermal conversion water evaporation: assemblies, structures, applications, and …

Y Li, Y Shi, H Wang, T Liu, X Zheng, S Gao… - Carbon Energy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The shortage of fresh water in the world has brought upon a serious crisis to human health
and economic development. Solar‐driven interfacial photothermal conversion water …

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 …

Photothermal materials: A key platform enabling highly efficient water evaporation driven by solar energy

X Wu, GY Chen, G Owens, D Chu, H Xu - Materials Today Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Conversion and utilization of solar energy is one of the most important strategies being
proposed to mitigate the foreshadowed global energy crisis and environmental issues …

Towards highly efficient solar-driven interfacial evaporation for desalination

X Liu, DD Mishra, X Wang, H Peng, C Hu - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Conventional desalination technologies play a central role in alleviating the crisis of
increasing freshwater shortages; however, they are impeded by high cost, intensive energy …

Electrode materials for capacitive deionization: A review

X Zhao, H Wei, H Zhao, Y Wang, N Tang - Journal of Electroanalytical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an emerging technology for energy-efficient water
desalination, and attracts more and more attention in recent years. It has been concluded …

Multifunctional Ag3PO4-rGO-Coated Textiles for Clean Water Production by Solar-Driven Evaporation, Photocatalysis, and Disinfection

L Noureen, Z Xie, Y Gao, M Li, M Hussain… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven water evaporation is of great importance for freshwater production via solar
distillation and has attracted growing attention recently by the development of heat …

Dual-functional CuO/CN for highly efficient solar evaporation and water purification

S Zuo, D Xia, Z Guan, F Yang, S Cheng, H Xu… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sunlight-clean water production from industrial wastewater, domestic sewage, and seawater
is a sustainable water purification technology with the potential to solve environmental and …

Recent progress of nanostructured interfacial solar vapor generators

F Tao, M Green, AV Garcia, T Xiao, AT Van Tran… - Applied Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Interfacial solar vapor generation has attracted wide interest in recent years due to its high
solar vapor generation efficiency, especially when compared with traditional solar vapor …

Form-stable solar thermal heat packs prepared by impregnating phase-changing materials within carbon-coated copper foams

Q Ye, P Tao, C Chang, L Zhou, X Zeng… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The heat packs that are based on solid–liquid transition of phase-changing materials
(PCMs) have been pursued as a promising way to provide heating for human body comfort …

High-efficiency superheated steam generation for portable sterilization under ambient pressure and low solar flux

C Chang, P Tao, J Xu, B Fu, C Song, J Wu… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Superheated solar steam generation above 100° C is critical for many important applications
such as sterilization but is challenging to achieve under natural fluctuating low-flux solar …