Harnessing solar‐driven photothermal effect toward the water–energy nexus

C Zhang, HQ Liang, ZK Xu, Z Wang - Advanced Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Producing affordable freshwater has been considered as a great societal challenge, and
most conventional desalination technologies are usually accompanied with large energy …

Thermoplasmonics in solar energy conversion: materials, nanostructured designs, and applications

B Yang, C Li, Z Wang, Q Dai - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The indispensable requirement for sustainable development of human society has forced
almost all countries to seek highly efficient and cost‐effective ways to harvest and convert …

Progress in thermoplasmonics for solar energy applications

G Liu, J Xu, T Chen, K Wang - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Plasmonics offer unprecedented control over light and stimulate fundamental research and
engineering applications in solar energy. The surface plasmon resonance is responsible for …

Solar steam generation based on the photothermal effect: from designs to applications, and beyond

Y Lin, H Xu, X Shan, Y Di, A Zhao, Y Hu… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Using broadband solar energy for producing clean water can potentially and effectively
solve the water pollution and shortage crisis. With the rapid development of material science …

Ceramic‐based dielectric metamaterials

W Luo, S Yan, J Zhou - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dielectric metamaterials based on ceramics have attracted considerable interest in the past
few years owing to their low dielectric loss, simple structure, excellent multifield tunability …

Advancements in Nanoenabled Membrane Distillation for a Sustainable Water‐Energy‐Environment Nexus

MU Farid, JA Kharraz, J Sun, MW Boey… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of nano innovations in membrane distillation (MD) has garnered increasing
scientific interest. This enables the exploration of state‐of‐the‐art nano‐enabled MD …

Low‐cost and large‐scale producible biomimetic radiative cooling glass with multiband radiative regulation performance

X Zhang, X Li, F Wang, W Yuan… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Common glass without spectral regulation effect cannot offer an energy‐saving function, and
radiative cooling technology without visible transparency cannot satisfy the illumination and …

Photonic metamaterial absorbers: morphology engineering and interdisciplinary applications

L Feng, P Huo, Y Liang, T Xu - Advanced materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in nanofabrication technologies have spurred many breakthroughs in the
field of photonic metamaterials that provide efficient ways of manipulating light–matter …

Poly(N-phenylglycine)/MoS2 Nanohybrid with Synergistic Solar-Thermal Conversion for Efficient Water Purification and Thermoelectric Power Generation

Z Lin, T Wu, YF Feng, J Shi, B Zhou, C Zhu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Solar interfacial evaporation is an emerging technology in solar energy harvesting
developed to remedy the global energy crisis and the lack of freshwater resources …

Carbon-based absorbers for solar evaporation: Steam generation and beyond

T Yang, H Lin, KT Lin, B Jia - Sustainable materials and technologies, 2020 - Elsevier
Interfacial solar-driven water evaporation, as a promising strategy for solving global water
shortage, has become increasingly prominent. Carbon-based solar absorbers, which are …