Photothermal nanomaterials: a powerful light-to-heat converter

X Cui, Q Ruan, X Zhuo, X Xia, J Hu, R Fu, Y Li… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
All forms of energy follow the law of conservation of energy, by which they can be neither
created nor destroyed. Light-to-heat conversion as a traditional yet constantly evolving …

Salt mitigation strategies of solar‐driven interfacial desalination

K Xu, C Wang, Z Li, S Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial desalination (SDID), which is based on localized heating and
interfacial evaporation, provides an opportunity for developing environmentally friendly and …

A reconfigurable and magnetically responsive assembly for dynamic solar steam generation

Y Hu, H Ma, M Wu, T Lin, H Yao, F Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Interfacial solar vapor generation is a promising technique to efficiently get fresh water from
seawater or effluent. However, for the traditional static evaporation models, further …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Interfacial solar evaporation by a 3D graphene oxide stalk for highly concentrated brine treatment

CTK Finnerty, AK Menon, KM Conway… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, we demonstrate a 3-dimensional graphene oxide (3D GO) stalk that operates
near the capillary wicking limit to achieve an evaporation flux of 34.7 kg m–2 h–1 under 1 …

Flexible anti-biofouling MXene/cellulose fibrous membrane for sustainable solar-driven water purification

XJ Zha, X Zhao, JH Pu, LS Tang, K Ke… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven interfacial water evaporation is regarded as an effective, renewable, and
environment-friendly technology for clean water production. However, biofouling caused by …

Guaranteeing complete salt rejection by channeling saline water through fluidic photothermal structure toward synergistic zero energy clean water production and in …

Y Zhang, T Xiong, L Suresh, H Qu, X Zhang… - ACS Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The salt fouling issue, which has become the major bottleneck hindering a sustainable solar
desalination process in practice. Herein, a fluidic photothermal structure that is able to …