Abstract The Internet of Things era has promoted enormous research on sensors,
communications, data fusion, and actuators. Among them, sensors are a prerequisite for …

Solar photothermal steam technology (SPST) has attracted increasing attention in recent
decades because of great potential to produce fresh water from various water sources, such …

MXenes as an emerging 2D materials have attracted significant attention in the fields of
energy storage, sensing, etc. However, superlong time-consuming (several days) and low …

Developing rational sorbent for viscous crude oil clean-up is still a daunting challenge,
which requires rapid oil-uptake capability and scalable fabrication process. Herein, a …

Discharge of oily wastewater with poor fluidity could cause serious environmental pollution.
Therefore, rapid and efficient removal and recovery of oil is still a global problem. Currently …

Developing novel absorbent materials with both rapid absorption speed and efficient
recovery of viscous crude oils presents an enticing prospect for crude cleanup and …

Compared with conventional two-dimensional (2D) structure, three-dimensional (3D) solar
steam generators have presented a considerably higher evaporation rate due to their …

Developing self-heating sorbents for rapid clean-up of viscous oil spills by using clean solar
energy is attracting attention. Still, simple and scalable fabrication approaches of solar …

Frequent oil spill incidents have resulted in serious environmental pollution posing a great
threat to human health and ecological system, thus developing new absorbents to efficiently …

As one of the important ways to utilize solar energy, it is of great significance to construct
composite photothermal materials with high photothermal conversion and multifunctionality …