Bioinspired multifunctional paper-based rGO composites for solar-driven clean water generation

J Lou, Y Liu, Z Wang, D Zhao, C Song… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Reusing polluted water through various decontamination techniques has appeared as one
of the most practical approaches to address the global shortage of clean water. Rather than …

An integrated device view on photo-electrochemical solar-hydrogen generation

MA Modestino, S Haussener - Annual review of chemical and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Devices that directly capture and store solar energy have the potential to significantly
increase the share of energy from intermittent renewable sources. Photo-electrochemical …

Graphene-based recyclable photo-absorbers for high-efficiency seawater desalination

X Wang, G Ou, N Wang, H Wu - ACS applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Today's scientific advances in water desalination dramatically increase our ability to
transform seawater into fresh water. As an important source of renewable energy, solar …

High‐performance water purification and desalination by solar‐driven interfacial evaporation and photocatalytic VOC decomposition enabled by hierarchical TiO2 …

Y Tian, H Yang, S Wu, B Gong, C Xu… - … Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial evaporation for clean water generation has drawn significant
attention as a promising and environmentally friendly avenue to tackle the global issue of …

Fabrication of α‐Fe2O3@rGO/PAN Nanofiber Composite Membrane for Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Dyes

K Sun, L Wang, C Wu, J Deng… - Advanced Materials …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The treatment of dye polluting water is one of the most important tasks that are concerned
with water resources. Herein, a nanofiber composite membrane (NCM) is fabricated with an …

High-performance wastewater treatment based on reusable functional photo-absorbers

Y Liu, X Wang, H Wu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
Current scientific advances in wastewater treatment increase our ability to acquire clean
water; one of these methods is the use of solar energy. Solar irradiation is an important …

Optofluidics-based membrane microreactor for wastewater treatment by photocatalytic ozonation

X He, R Chen, X Zhu, Q Liao, L An… - Industrial & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conventional photocatalytic ozonation usually suffers from the mass transport issue
associated with low specific surface area and gas/liquid interface and liquid film. To address …

Excitonic effects in absorption spectra of carbon dioxide reduction photocatalysts

T Biswas, AK Singh - npj Computational Materials, 2021 - nature.com
The formation and disassociation of excitons play a crucial role in any photovoltaic or
photocatalytic application. However, excitonic effects are seldom considered in materials …

Analysis of optical properties of spherical metallic nanoparticles for effective absorption of solar radiation and their heating

VK Pustovalov, LG Astafyeva, W Fritzsche - Solar Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
The investigations and the use of nanoparticles as photothermal agents in solar and
photonic nanotechnology represent a fast growing area of research and applications …

The CPV “toolbox”: New approaches to maximizing solar resource utilization with application-oriented concentrator photovoltaics

H Apostoleris, M Stefancich, M Chiesa - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
As the scaling of silicon PV cells and module manufacturing has driven solar energy
penetration up and costs down, concentrator photovoltaic technologies, originally conceived …