Freshwater scarcity is a vital societal challenge related to climate change, population
pressure, and agricultural and industrial demands. Therefore, sustainable desalination …

Solar desalination provides a clean and economical way for freshwater supply, thus
becoming more and more promising. In this work, the research progress of multi-stage solar …

Tapping into solar energy seems to be a viable and sustainable solution for the ongoing
global challenges of water scarcity and clean energy shortage. However, the natural …

Solar‐driven evaporation process brings exciting opportunities to recover clean water and
resources in a sustainable way from diverse sources like seawater and wastewater …

The potential utility of seawater desalination technologies (such as thermal distillation,
membrane desalination, and solar steam generation) has been recognized with the growing …

Membrane distillation (MD) is considered a promising technology that is expected to
compete with reverse osmosis (RO) for water desalination. The superiority of MD is mainly …

The conventional membrane distillation (MD) process is accompanied by large energy
consumption, low thermal efficiency and inevitable requirements of centralized …

Porous materials have been widely used to encapsulate phase change materials (PCMs)
and enhance their thermal performances. However, the original porous materials possess …

Heat-localized solar distillation (HLSD) is an emerging environmentally-friendly high-
efficiency distillation technology for clean water production. Solar interfacial distillation (SID) …

Membrane distillation (MD) has been proven promising in solar-driven desalination.
Moreover, its unique characteristics such as simple process, module compactness, high salt …