Recent advances of green electricity generation: potential in solar interfacial evaporation system

J Wang, X Cao, X Cui, H Wang, H Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) has played a pivotal role in optimizing water‐
energy utilization, reducing conventional power costs, and mitigating environmental impacts …

Carbon materials for solar steam-generation

M Toyoda, M Inagaki - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
Steam can be generated by solar illumination of nanoparticles suspended in water, which is
called “solar steam-generation” and gets attention for the novel process for the production of …

Recent advances in solar-driven evaporation systems

Z Xu, Z Li, Y Jiang, G Xu, M Zhu, WC Law… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, energy and the environment have become critical issues for determining the
sustainability of the Earth. Freshwater crises, as an increasingly serious global problem …

A review of natural materials for solar evaporation

R Fillet, V Nicolas, V Fierro, A Celzard - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2021 - Elsevier
One way to harvest solar energy is to produce steam from liquid water. Steam can be used
to provide freshwater even in a harsh environment, with extreme temperature and low …

Biomass-based materials for solar-powered seawater evaporation

Z Li, S Wei, Y Ge, Z Zhang, Z Li - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Clean and safe water is crucial to maintaining human life on earth. Solar-powered seawater
desalination (SSD) is a promising and feasible way to use solar energy resources to …

Solar heat localization: concept and emerging applications

V Kashyap, H Ghasemi - Journal of materials chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, the solar heat localization concept has provided an appealing route for efficient
utilization of solar thermal energy. This concept has shown remarkable promise in power …

A typha orientalis-inspired 3D Janus solar evaporator with controllable wettability for highly efficient and stable solar desalination

G Yang, Z Yin, Q Zha, R Wang, Y Xie, Y Chen, Z Hong… - Desalination, 2025 - Elsevier
Solar-powered interfacial evaporators, though promising for seawater desalination and
wastewater treatment, but suffer from the problems of monolithic structure and complex …

Tannin-based hard carbons as high-performance anode materials for sodium-ion batteries

H Tonnoir, D Huo, RLS Canevesi, V Fierro… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
The demand for efficient and cheap electrochemical storage devices is very high today. Na-
ion batteries are emerging as a promising alternative to Li-ion batteries for large-scale …

Roles of Surface Chemistry and Texture of Nanoporous Activated Carbons in CO2 Capture

RLS Canevesi, S Schaefer, MT Izquierdo… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The presence of heteroatoms, such as nitrogen or oxygen, on the surface of nanoporous
activated carbons (ACs) promotes CO2 uptake due to the stronger specific interactions with …

Facile deflagration synthesis of hollow carbon nanospheres with efficient performance for solar water evaporation

H Yang, G Yang, Z Qiao, H Bao, S Zhang… - ACS applied materials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Solar water evaporation is a promising and environment-friendly approach to relieve global
water scarcity issues. Currently, many reports show that the voids and porous structure are …