Bioinspired polydopamine hydrogels: Strategies and applications

Y Xu, J Hu, J Hu, Y Cheng, X Chen, Z Gu… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polydopamine (PDA) is a fascinating bioinspired material for the construction of diverse
functional materials. In particular, the growing trend of PDA hydrogels clearly reveals the …

Solar-powered sustainable water production: state-of-the-art technologies for sunlight–energy–water nexus

Z Li, X Xu, X Sheng, P Lin, J Tang, L Pan, YV Kaneti… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Alternative water resources (seawater, brackish water, atmospheric water, sewage, etc.) can
be converted into clean freshwater via high-efficiency, energy-saving, and cost-effective …

Scalable super hygroscopic polymer films for sustainable moisture harvesting in arid environments

Y Guo, W Guan, C Lei, H Lu, W Shi, G Yu - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Extracting ubiquitous atmospheric water is a sustainable strategy to enable decentralized
access to safely managed water but remains challenging due to its limited daily water output …

Ultrahigh solar-driven atmospheric water production enabled by scalable rapid-cycling water harvester with vertically aligned nanocomposite sorbent

J Xu, T Li, T Yan, S Wu, M Wu, J Chao, X Huo… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Freshwater scarcity is a globally significant challenge threatening the development of
human society. Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting offers an appealing way to …

Materials engineering for atmospheric water harvesting: progress and perspectives

H Lu, W Shi, Y Guo, W Guan, C Lei, G Yu - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is emerging as a promising strategy to produce fresh
water from abundant airborne moisture to overcome the global clean water shortage. The …

Polyzwitterionic hydrogels for efficient atmospheric water harvesting

C Lei, Y Guo, W Guan, H Lu, W Shi… - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is regarded as one of the promising strategies for
freshwater production desirable to provide sustainable water for landlocked and arid …

Salting-in effect of zwitterionic polymer hydrogel facilitates atmospheric water harvesting

S Aleid, M Wu, R Li, W Wang, C Zhang… - ACS Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hygroscopic salt-hydrogel composite sorbents have attracted increasing attention for
atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) applications but suffer from the salting-out effect. To …

Biomimetic anti-freezing polymeric hydrogels: keeping soft-wet materials active in cold environments

Y Jian, S Handschuh-Wang, J Zhang, W Lu… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As one of the most outstanding materials, the analysis of the structure and function of
hydrogels has been extensively carried out to tailor and adapt them to various fields of …

Hydrogel materials for sustainable water resources harvesting & treatment: Synthesis, mechanism and applications

Z Zhang, H Fu, Z Li, J Huang, Z Xu, Y Lai, X Qian… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, with the development of global industry and the increase of
population, the shortage of freshwater resources has prompted people to conduct in-depth …

Sorbents for atmospheric water harvesting: from design principles to applications

W Shi, W Guan, C Lei, G Yu - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity caused by climate change and population growth poses a grave threat to
human society. Of the different water purification technologies put forward, one presents a …