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 …

Designing high-efficiency light-to-thermal conversion materials for solar desalination and photothermal catalysis

H Jiang, X Liu, D Wang, Z Qiao, D Wang… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Light-to-thermal conversion materials (LTCMs) have been of great interest to researchers
due to their impressive energy conversion capacity and wide range of applications in …

Crucial breakthrough of second near-infrared biological window fluorophores: design and synthesis toward multimodal imaging and theranostics

S He, J Song, J Qu, Z Cheng - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of fluorophores and molecular probes for the second near-infrared
biological window (NIR-II, 1000–1700 nm) represents an important, newly emerging and …

Liquid exfoliation of TiN nanodots as novel sonosensitizers for photothermal-enhanced sonodynamic therapy against cancer

X Wang, X Wang, Q Yue, H Xu, X Zhong, L Sun, G Li… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultrasound (US)-activated sonodynamic therapy (SDT), as a non-invasive therapy method,
has the advantages of large tissue penetration depth promising for treatment of large …

Recent advances and challenges of emerging solar-driven steam and the contribution of photocatalytic effect

R Djellabi, L Noureen, VD Dao, D Meroni… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, solar-driven steam materials and systems for water desalination and
decontamination have received increasing attention from the scientific community …

Nanomaterials with a photothermal effect for antibacterial activities: an overview

JW Xu, K Yao, ZK Xu - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanomaterials and nanotechnologies have been expected to provide innovative platforms
for addressing antibacterial challenges, with potential to even deal with bacterial infections …

MOF-derived CuS@ Cu-MOF nanocomposites for synergistic photothermal-chemodynamic-chemo therapy

P Geng, N Yu, DK Macharia, R Meng, P Qiu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Multifunctional nanoagents with simultaneous bioimaging and photothermal/chemodynamic/
drug-delivering functions have great advantages in synergistic cancer theranostic, but the …

Multilevel design strategies of high-performance interfacial solar vapor generation: A state of the art review

X Gu, C Fan, Y Sun - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Interfacial solar vapor generation has recently emerged as a promising technology because
of its high solar evaporation efficiency and many studies have been conducted from …

Materials and device design for advanced phototherapy systems

JS Lee, J Kim, Y Ye, T Kim - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Phototherapy has recently emerged as a promising solution for cancer treatment due to its
multifunctionality and minimal invasiveness. Notwithstanding the limited penetration depth of …

Near-infrared-II activated inorganic photothermal nanomedicines

Z Yu, WK Chan, Y Zhang, TTY Tan - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence of near-infrared-II (NIR-II) activated photomedicines has extended the
penetration depth for noninvasive theranostics, especially for photothermal nanomedicines …