Aerogels meet phase change materials: fundamentals, advances, and beyond

P Liu, X Chen, Y Li, P Cheng, Z Tang, J Lv, W Aftab… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Benefiting from the inherent properties of ultralight weight, ultrahigh porosity, ultrahigh
specific surface area, adjustable thermal/electrical conductivities, and mechanical flexibility …

Recent advances in interfacial solar vapor generation: clean water production and beyond

S Yu, Y Gu, X Chao, G Huang, D Shou - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Interfacial solar vapor generation (ISVG) was first proposed in 2014 and it has gained more
and more attention from academia due to its tremendous improvement in evaporation …

Recent advances in structural regulation and optimization of high-performance solar-driven interfacial evaporation systems

X Han, S Ding, H Hu, S Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SIE) is a sustainable and efficient technology for
producing clean water, which has promising applications in seawater desalination and …

Aerogels in passive solar thermal desalination: a review

M Rastgar, L Jiang, C Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Driven by renewable energy, solar-thermal technology holds promising potential for effective
freshwater production with a reduced carbon footprint. In this technology, solar energy is …

Synthesis and adsorption performance of three-dimensional gels assembled by carbon nanomaterials for heavy metal removal from water: A review

Y Zhang, J Luo, H Zhang, T Li, H Xu, Y Sun… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review focuses on the removal of heavy metals from water by three-dimensional gels
with carbon nanomaterials as the main building units. It highlights the fundamental …

One-step growth of the interconnected carbon nanotubes/graphene hybrids from cuttlebone-derived bi-functional catalyst for lithium-ion batteries

Y Zhong, K Deng, J Zheng, T Zhang, P Liu, X Lv… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon nanotubes/graphene hybrid materials with excellent physicochemical properties can
be widely applied in the fields of energy storage, electrocatalysis, sensing, etc. Reducing the …

Creating aligned porous structure with cobweb-like cellulose nanofibrils in MXene composite aerogel for solar-thermal desalination and humidity response

M Ding, W Ma, P Liu, J Yang, K Lan, D Xu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Aerogel with vertically aligned porous structure can effectively enhance sunlight absorption
and continuously absorb seawater, which is ideal for solar-thermal desalination, but the …

Superelastic, highly conductive, and superhydrophobic silver nanowires@ polypyrrole hybrid aerogels with outstanding electromagnetic interference shielding and …

F Peng, W Zhu, B Fu, Y Fang, Z Peng, J He… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Multifunctional hybrid aerogels with high electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and
Joule heating properties are urgently demanded for modern microelectronic devices and …

A stable all-day interfacial evaporation multistage distillation driven by solar photothermal and solar electrothermal

S Cheng, Y Li, B Jin, Z Yu, R Gu - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar-powered interface vapor generation offers a promising approach to sustainable
desalination. However, the diurnal nature of solar energy leaves evaporators idles for nearly …

Engineering biomimetic nanostructured “melanosome” textiles for advanced solar-to-thermal devices

P Xiao, W Yang, N Qiu, S Li, F Ni, C Zhang, J Gu… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
In nature, deep-sea fish featured with close-packed melanosomes can remarkably lower
light reflection, which have inspired us to design ultrablack coatings for enhanced solar-to …