Templating strategies for 3D-structured thermally conductive composites: recent advances and thermal energy applications

J Yang, X Shen, W Yang, JK Kim - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermally conductive polymer nanocomposites are enticing candidates for not only thermal
managements in electronics but also functional components in emerging thermal energy …

Recent advances in carbon‐based materials for solar‐driven interfacial photothermal conversion water evaporation: assemblies, structures, applications, and …

Y Li, Y Shi, H Wang, T Liu, X Zheng, S Gao… - Carbon Energy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The shortage of fresh water in the world has brought upon a serious crisis to human health
and economic development. Solar‐driven interfacial photothermal conversion water …

Bioinspired nanofibrous aerogel with vertically aligned channels for efficient water purification and salt‐rejecting solar desalination

W Ma, T Lu, W Cao, R Xiong… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar steam generation has become one of the most promising strategies to relieve the
freshwater crisis. Whereas, the construction of a solar‐thermal water evaporation structure …

Solar-powered sustainable water production: state-of-the-art technologies for sunlight–energy–water nexus

Z Li, X Xu, X Sheng, P Lin, J Tang, L Pan, YV Kaneti… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Alternative water resources (seawater, brackish water, atmospheric water, sewage, etc.) can
be converted into clean freshwater via high-efficiency, energy-saving, and cost-effective …

Materials for solar-powered water evaporation

F Zhao, Y Guo, X Zhou, W Shi, G Yu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Solar-powered water evaporation—the extraction of vapour from liquid water using solar
energy—provides the basis for the development of eco-friendly and cost-effective freshwater …

All‐cold evaporation under one sun with zero energy loss by using a heatsink inspired solar evaporator

X Wu, Z Wu, Y Wang, T Gao, Q Li, H Xu - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Interfacial solar steam generation is a highly efficient and sustainable technology for clean
water production and wastewater treatment. Although great progress has been achieved in …

Freeze casting: from low‐dimensional building blocks to aligned porous structures—a review of novel materials, methods, and applications

G Shao, DAH Hanaor, X Shen, A Gurlo - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Freeze casting, also known as ice templating, is a particularly versatile technique that has
been applied extensively for the fabrication of well‐controlled biomimetic porous materials …

Same materials, bigger output: A reversibly transformable 2D–3D photothermal evaporator for highly efficient solar steam generation

Y Wang, X Wu, T Gao, Y Lu, X Yang, GY Chen… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Using solar-thermal energy to drive seawater desalination via interfacial solar steam
generation is a sustainable strategy for clean water supply. Since photothermal materials …

Bioinspired self‐standing, self‐floating 3d solar evaporators breaking the trade‐off between salt cycle and heat localization for continuous seawater desalination

H Liu, B Chen, Y Chen, M Zhou, F Tian, Y Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Facing the global water shortage challenge, solar‐driven desalination is considered a
sustainable technology to obtain freshwater from seawater. However, the trade‐off between …

Fibrous aerogels with tunable superwettability for high-performance solar-driven interfacial evaporation

C Xu, M Gao, X Yu, J Zhang, Y Cheng, M Zhu - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation is an emerging technology for water desalination.
Generally, double-layered structure with separate surface wettability properties is usually …