Water activation in solar‐powered vapor generation

D Wei, C Wang, J Zhang, H Zhao, Y Asakura… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐powered vapor evaporation (SVG), based on the liquid‐gas phase conversion
concept using solar energy, has been given close attention as a promising technology to …

Recent advanced self-propelling salt-blocking technologies for passive solar-driven interfacial evaporation desalination systems

M Sheng, Y Yang, X Bin, S Zhao, C Pan, F Nawaz… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional active seawater evaporation technologies, that is, they include components
with mechanical moving parts, generally involve large plants with high capital and operating …

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 …

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation for water treatment: advanced research progress and challenges

J Li, Y Jing, G Xing, M Liu, Y Cui, H Sun… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) using the widely distributed solar energy as the
driving force and simple and portable photothermal evaporation structures as the core …

High-performance solar-driven interfacial evaporation through molecular design of antibacterial, biomass-derived hydrogels

L Hao, N Liu, H Bai, P He, R Niu, J Gong - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrogel has been regarded as one of the most promising candidates for next-generation
solar evaporation technology to produce freshwater from non-potable water. However …

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation: design and application progress of structural evaporators and functional distillers

J Wang, Y Kong, Z Liu, H Wang - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation technology (TSDIE), which directly uses solar energy to
evaporate and purify water, is an emerging solution to address the shortage of freshwater …

Engineering van der Waals materials for advanced metaphotonics

H Lin, Z Zhang, H Zhang, KT Lin, X Wen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The outstanding chemical and physical properties of 2D materials, together with their
atomically thin nature, make them ideal candidates for metaphotonic device integration and …

Advances in desalination technology and its environmental and economic assessment

Y Cai, J Wu, SQ Shi, J Li, KH Kim - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
The potential utility of seawater desalination technologies (such as thermal distillation,
membrane desalination, and solar steam generation) has been recognized with the growing …

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 …

Recent advances in solar-driven interfacial evaporation coupling systems: Energy conversion, water purification, and seawater resource extraction

X Lu, C Mu, Y Liu, L Wu, Z Tong, K Huang - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the increasing scarcity of fresh water and energy poses a growing threat to
sustainable human development, attracting global attention. Solar-driven interfacial …