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 …

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 …

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 …

Bioinspired structural and functional designs towards interfacial solar steam generation for clean water production

X Dong, S Gao, S Li, T Zhu, J Huang… - Materials Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fresh water shortage is rapidly emerging as a global crisis, threatening the future
development of human society. Extracting fresh water from seawater, wastewater and even …

Towards highly salt-rejecting solar interfacial evaporation: Photothermal materials selection, structural designs, and energy management

Z Wei, J Wang, S Guo, SC Tan - Nano Research Energy, 2022 - sciopen.com
With the development of the industry, water pollution and shortage have become serious
global problems. Owing to the abundance of seawater storage on earth, efficient solar …

Advances in solar evaporator materials for freshwater generation

S Cao, Q Jiang, X Wu, D Ghim, HG Derami… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
To alleviate the scarcity of clean water, solar steam generation, which utilizes the green and
abundant resources of Earth, has attracted considerable attention and been recognized as a …

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 …

Emerging investigator series: the rise of nano-enabled photothermal materials for water evaporation and clean water production by sunlight

P Wang - Environmental Science: Nano, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar driven water evaporation and distillation is an ancient technology, but has been
rejuvenated by nano-enabled photothermal materials in the past 4 years. The nano-enabled …

Nanoenabled photothermal materials for clean water production

MS Irshad, N Arshad, X Wang - Global Challenges, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐powered water evaporation is a primitive technology but interest has revived in the
last five years due to the use of nanoenabled photothermal absorbers. The cutting‐edge …

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 …