[HTML][HTML] Reviewing wood-based solar-driven interfacial evaporators for desalination

Y Dong, Y Tan, K Wang, Y Cai, J Li, C Sonne, C Li - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar‒driven interfacial water evaporation is a convenient and efficient strategy for
harvesting solar energy and desalinating seawater. However, the design and fabrication of …

Cellulose‐based Interfacial Solar Evaporators: Structural Regulation and Performance Manipulation

W Wu, Y Xu, X Ma, Z Tian, C Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The shortage of freshwater resources has become a major obstacle threatening human
development, and directly utilizing solar energy by solar evaporators is emerging as a …

2D MoN1.2‐rGO Stacked Heterostructures Enabled Water State Modification for Highly Efficient Interfacial Solar Evaporation

H Yu, D Wang, H Jin, P Wu, X Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Improving interfacial solar evaporation performance is crucial for the practical application of
this technology in solar‐driven seawater desalination. Lowering evaporation enthalpy is one …

3D hydrogel evaporator with vertical radiant vessels breaking the trade‐off between thermal localization and salt resistance for solar desalination of high‐salinity

X Liu, F Chen, Y Li, H Jiang, DD Mishra, F Yu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Delivering sufficient water to the evaporation surface/interface is one of the most widely
adopted strategies to overcome salt accumulation in solar‐driven interfacial desalination …

Solar‐Powered High‐Performance Lignin‐Wood Evaporator for Solar Steam Generation

Y Gu, D Wang, Y Gao, Y Yue, W Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research on wood‐based solar evaporators has made great progress and significant
breakthroughs have been made in using lignin as a photothermal material; however, the …

Ion‐Transfer Engineering via Janus Hydrogels Enables Ultrahigh Performance and Salt‐Resistant Solar Desalination

N He, Y Yang, H Wang, F Li, B Jiang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging solar interfacial evaporation offers the most promising response to the severe
freshwater crisis. However, the most challenging bottleneck is the conflict between resisting …

Low-value wood for sustainable high-performance structural materials

X Dong, W Gan, Y Shang, J Tang, Y Wang, Z Cao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Wood is a renewable and eco-friendly resource with great promise to advance sustainability
in various industries, particularly those associated with construction and building materials …

Going beyond efficiency for solar evaporation

N Xu, J Li, C Finnerty, Y Song, L Zhou, B Zhu, P Wang… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Interfacial solar evaporation, which captures solar energy and localizes the generated heat
for evaporating water molecules, is regarded as an important emerging strategy for solar …

Rationally constructing a 3D bifunctional solar evaporator for high-performance water evaporation coupled with pollutants degradation

L Cui, C Ma, P Wang, H Che, H Xu, Y Ao - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes encapsulated with Co are grown on carbon
fibers (Co-NCNT/CF) and utilized as photothermal materials to construct 3D evaporators …

Recent advances in wood-derived monolithic carbon materials: Synthesis approaches, modification methods and environmental applications

Y Zuo, J Feng, TO Soyol-Erdene, Z Wei, T Hu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wood-derived monolithic carbon materials have gained great interest and attention owing to
their unique porous structure, abundant longitudinally aligned microchannels, excellent …