Recent advances in metal sulfides: from controlled fabrication to electrocatalytic, photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting and beyond

S Chandrasekaran, L Yao, L Deng, C Bowen… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, nanocrystals of metal sulfide materials have attracted scientific research
interest for renewable energy applications due to the abundant choice of materials with …

Recent advances in fibrous materials for interfacial solar steam generation

C Ge, D Xu, H Du, Z Chen, J Chen, Z Shen, W Xu… - Advanced Fiber …, 2023 - Springer
The scarcity of fresh water resources has become a serious issue hindering the sustainable
development of modern civilization. The interfacial solar steam generation (ISSG) system …

Solar absorber material and system designs for photothermal water vaporization towards clean water and energy production

M Gao, L Zhu, CK Peh, GW Ho - Energy & Environmental Science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Photothermal materials with broad solar absorption and high conversion efficiency have
recently attracted significant interest. They are becoming a fast-growing research focus in …

Coupling solar-driven photothermal effect into photocatalysis for sustainable water treatment

Y Lu, H Zhang, D Fan, Z Chen, X Yang - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Effectively harnessing renewable and inexhaustible solar radiation for energy conversion
has attracted significant research interest in the past decade. Solar thermal conversion, as a …

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 …

Photothermal membrane distillation toward solar water production

M Gao, CK Peh, FL Meng, GW Ho - Small Methods, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater production is one of the biggest global challenges today. Though desalination
can provide a climate‐independent source of clean water, the process requires a high …

Low-cost bilayered structure for improving the performance of solar stills: Performance/cost analysis and water yield prediction using machine learning

AH Elsheikh, S Shanmugan, R Sathyamurthy… - Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims to enhance the performance of conventional solar still (CSS) using a low
cost heat localization bilayered structure (HLBS). The HLBS consists of a bottom supporting …

Solar–thermal water evaporation: a review

Y Pang, J Zhang, R Ma, Z Qu, E Lee, T Luo - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Solar–thermal water evaporation (SWE) has received much interest in recent years due to a
few seminal works on materials innovation and thermal management. With many studies …

Cadmium sulfide-based nanomaterials for photocatalytic hydrogen production

YJ Yuan, D Chen, ZT Yu, ZG Zou - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar hydrogen generation via photocatalytic water splitting represents an attractive strategy
to address the global energy crisis and environmental pollution issues. CdS-based …

The food–materials nexus: Next generation bioplastics and advanced materials from agri‐food residues

CG Otoni, HMC Azeredo, BD Mattos… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The most recent strategies available for upcycling agri‐food losses and waste (FLW) into
functional bioplastics and advanced materials are reviewed and the valorization of food …