Hydrogels and hydrogel-derived materials for energy and water sustainability

Y Guo, J Bae, Z Fang, P Li, F Zhao, G Yu - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Energy and water are of fundamental importance for our modern society, and advanced
technologies on sustainable energy storage and conversion as well as water resource …

Materials for solar-powered water evaporation

F Zhao, Y Guo, X Zhou, W Shi, G Yu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Solar-powered water evaporation—the extraction of vapour from liquid water using solar
energy—provides the basis for the development of eco-friendly and cost-effective freshwater …

A covalent organic framework/graphene dual-region hydrogel for enhanced solar-driven water generation

C Li, S Cao, J Lutzki, J Yang, T Konegger… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven water generation is a sustainable water treatment technology, helping to relieve
global water scarcity issues. However, this technology faces great challenges due to the …

Carbon materials for solar water evaporation and desalination

W Guan, Y Guo, G Yu - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Seawater desalination is viewed as a promising solution to world freshwater scarcity. Solar
assisted desalination is proposed to overcome the high energy consumption in current …

Recent progress in graphene/polymer nanocomposites

X Sun, C Huang, L Wang, L Liang, Y Cheng… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocomposites, multiphase solid materials with at least one nanoscaled component, have
been attracting ever‐increasing attention because of their unique properties. Graphene is an …

Janus-interface engineering boosting solar steam towards high-efficiency water collection

H Yao, P Zhang, C Yang, Q Liao, X Hao… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar powered clean water production has been considered a favorable way to address the
problem of the global water shortage. Recently, the interfacial solar-steam generation …

Challenges and opportunities for solar evaporation

C Chen, Y Kuang, L Hu - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
Solar evaporation is an ancient technology that has regained tremendous attention because
of the abundance of solar energy, widely available water sources, and facile facilities in …

Recent progress in solar-driven interfacial water evaporation: Advanced designs and applications

L Zhu, M Gao, CKN Peh, GW Ho - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Solar water evaporation plays a central role in low-energy fresh water production which is
essential for both human health and economic development. The utilization of photothermal …

Structure architecting for salt‐rejecting solar interfacial desalination to achieve high‐performance evaporation with in situ energy generation

Y Zhang, T Xiong, DK Nandakumar… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The past few years have witnessed a rapid development of solar‐driven interfacial
evaporation, a promising technology for low‐cost water desalination. As of today, solar‐to …

Recent advances and challenges for solar-driven water evaporation system toward applications

VD Dao, NH Vu, S Yun - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Solar-driven water evaporation system has attracted enormous attention in recent years.
This is due to the widespread use of natural sources such as solar energy and water …