State-of-the-art methods for overcoming temperature polarization in membrane distillation process: A review

A Anvari, AA Yancheshme, KM Kekre… - Journal of membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) technology has been mainly used as a treatment method for
saline or contaminated wastewater. Despite the rapid progress in material engineering and …

Challenges in plasmonic catalysis

E Cortés, LV Besteiro, A Alabastri, A Baldi… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of nanoplasmonics to control light and heat close to the thermodynamic limit
enables exciting opportunities in the field of plasmonic catalysis. The decay of plasmonic …

Reusable and recyclable graphene masks with outstanding superhydrophobic and photothermal performances

H Zhong, Z Zhu, J Lin, CF Cheung, VL Lu, F Yan… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The 2019 coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) is affecting over 210 countries and territories,
and it is spreading mainly by respiratory droplets. The use of disposable surgical masks is …

High‐yield and low‐cost solar water purification via hydrogel‐based membrane distillation

H Lu, W Shi, F Zhao, W Zhang, P Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As an eco‐friendly means, solar water purification has attracted substantial research interest
regarding material design, system engineering, and energy management. However, the low …

Nonreciprocal heat circulation metadevices

R Ju, PC Cao, D Wang, M Qi, L Xu, S Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal nonreciprocity typically stems from nonlinearity or spatiotemporal variation of
parameters. However, constrained by the inherent temperature‐dependent properties and …

Rational designs of interfacial-heating solar-thermal desalination devices: recent progress and remaining challenges

Y Xia, Y Kang, Z Wang, S Yuan, Y Li, L Gao… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar desalination is considered one of the most promising solutions to the interconnected
challenge of water and energy crisis. Interfacial-heating solar-thermal desalination (IHSTD) …

A floating vapor condensation structure in a heat-localized solar evaporation system for facile solar desalination

C Du, C Huang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar evaporation by heat localization has drawn great interests for efficient and facile solar
desalination since 2014. However, most of efforts have been put into improving the vapor …

An anti-salt accumulation 2.5 D arch solar-driven evaporator based on Marangoni effect for seawater desalination

S Luo, Z Li, X Cui, Y Ge - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar-driven evaporative seawater desalination is considered as a promising technology to
alleviate the global water crisis with minimal carbon footprint. However, the design of …

All‐dielectric insulated 3D plasmonic nanoparticles for enhanced self‐floating solar evaporation under one sun

Y Wang, H Ma, J Yu, J Li, N Xu, J Zhu… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic absorbers, featured by unique capability of broadband light absorption and
nanoscale optical concentration, have long been regarded as ideal candidates for self …

Conductive Fe3O4/PANI@ PTFE membrane for high thermal efficiency in interfacial induction heating membrane distillation

W Qing, Z Hu, Q Ma, W Zhang - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional membrane distillation (MD) undergoes interfacial temperature polarization
and thus may suffer from a reduced thermal efficiency when using the hot saline water as the …