Hydrogels as promising platforms for solar-driven water evaporators

X Jing, F Liu, T Abdiryim, X Liu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Water scarcity has forced people to develop advanced water purification techniques. Solar-
driven water treatment has the potential to produce clean water through utilizing solar …

Electrospinning technique meets solar energy: electrospun nanofiber-based evaporation systems for solar steam generation

J Zhao, Z Liu, SC Low, Z Xu, SH Tan - Advanced Fiber Materials, 2023 - Springer
The huge gap between inadequate clean water supply and demanding human needs can
be narrowed by sustainable and green methods of solar-driven evaporation, which …

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 …

Low vaporization enthalpy hydrogels for highly efficient solar-driven interfacial evaporation

Q Zhao, Y Yang, B Zhu, Z Sha, H Zhu, Z Wu, F Nawaz… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasingly aggravated water scarcity and pollution lead to great challenges in
humankind's survival and social advancement. Solar-driven interfacial evaporation, which …

Biomimetic hydrogel with directional heat regulation for efficient solar desalination

H Zhang, X Li, X Liu, Y Du, W Xie, S Zheng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation desalination has emerged as a promising strategy for
alleviating the water scarcity crisis. However, the design of evaporators with excellent heat …

Emerging heat-localized solar distillation systems: solar interfacial distillation VS photothermal membrane distillation

S Tian, X Li, J Ren, Z Zhou, F Wang, K Shi, J Xu, T Gu… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Heat-localized solar distillation (HLSD) is an emerging environmentally-friendly high-
efficiency distillation technology for clean water production. Solar interfacial distillation (SID) …

Architecting Janus hydrogel-fabric coupled evaporator for eliminating salt accumulation and highly efficient solar-driven brine desalination

H Zhou, L Han, M Yang, X Wu, J Li, H Ma, B Zhang - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Here, a novel Janus photothermal hydrogel-fabric was developed by firmly formatting
surface hydrophobized porous photothermal hydrogel on a commercial cotton fabric in large …

Atmospheric-moisture-induced polyacrylate hydrogels for hybrid passive cooling

RH Galib, Y Tian, Y Lei, S Dang, X Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Heat stress is being exacerbated by global warming, jeopardizing human and social
sustainability. As a result, reliable and energy-efficient cooling methods are highly sought …

Copper sulfide integrated functional cellulose hydrogel for efficient solar water purification

Z Wang, XF Zhang, L Shu, J Yao - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are emerging materials for solar steam generation to alleviate water scarcity.
Herein, a semiconductor of copper sulfide (CuS) was integrated into cellulose hydrogel to …

[HTML][HTML] Biomass-enhanced Janus sponge-like hydrogel with salt resistance and high strength for efficient solar desalination

A Chu, M Yang, J Chen, J Zhao, J Fang, Z Yang… - Green Energy & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Interfacial solar-driven evaporation technology shows great potential in the field of industrial
seawater desalination, and the development of efficient and low-cost evaporation materials …