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 …

Drivers, challenges, and emerging technologies for desalination of high-salinity brines: A critical review

KM Shah, IH Billinge, X Chen, H Fan, Y Huang… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination
and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt …

Bio‐inspired sandwich‐structured all‐day‐round solar evaporator for synergistic clean water and electricity generation

R Niu, J Ren, JJ Koh, L Chen, J Gong… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of solar‐driven interfacial evaporation and electricity co‐generation is
considered a promising approach to simultaneously alleviate freshwater scarcity and the …

Rational construction of “all-in-one” metal-organic framework for integrated solar steam generation and advanced oxidation process

P He, H Lan, H Bai, Y Zhu, Z Fan, J Liu, L Liu… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Integrating interfacial solar steam generation with advanced oxidation process (AOP) is
regarded as a promising strategy for addressing energy and environmental issues …

Bioinspired nanofibrous aerogel with vertically aligned channels for efficient water purification and salt‐rejecting solar desalination

W Ma, T Lu, W Cao, R Xiong… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar steam generation has become one of the most promising strategies to relieve the
freshwater crisis. Whereas, the construction of a solar‐thermal water evaporation structure …

Hofmeister Effect‐Enhanced Hydration Chemistry of Hydrogel for High‐Efficiency Solar‐Driven Interfacial Desalination

H Zou, X Meng, X Zhao, J Qiu - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven water evaporation technology holds great potential for mitigating the global
water scarcity due to its high energy conversion efficiency. Lowering the vaporization …

Design and performance boost of a MOF-functionalized-wood solar evaporator through tuning the hydrogen-bonding interactions

Y Lu, D Fan, Z Shen, H Zhang, H Xu, X Yang - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Interfacial solar evaporation technology is recognized as one of the most promising
strategies to address freshwater scarcity issues. To realize the sustainability of this …

Highly efficient and salt rejecting solar evaporation via a wick-free confined water layer

L Zhang, X Li, Y Zhong, A Leroy, Z Xu, L Zhao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advances in thermally localized solar evaporation hold significant promise for vapor
generation, seawater desalination, wastewater treatment, and medical sterilization …

Shape-controlled fabrication of MnO/C hybrid nanoparticle from waste polyester for solar evaporation and thermoelectricity generation

Z Fan, J Ren, H Bai, P He, L Hao, N Liu, B Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The integration of freshwater and electricity cogeneration through photothermal effect is
regarded as a new and promising strategy for high-efficiency solar energy utilization …

Solar‐Powered High‐Performance Lignin‐Wood Evaporator for Solar Steam Generation

Y Gu, D Wang, Y Gao, Y Yue, W Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research on wood‐based solar evaporators has made great progress and significant
breakthroughs have been made in using lignin as a photothermal material; however, the …