The urgency of addressing water scarcity and exponential population rise has necessitated
the use of sustainable desalination for clean water production, while conventional thermal …

Direct solar vapor generation (SVG) provides a sustainable and eco‐friendly solution to the
current global water scarcity challenges. However, existing SVG systems operating under …

Evaporation cooling as an environment-friendly and energy-saving cooling option is usually
realized by using porous medium to enhance the transport process, where the evaporation …

The scalability of passive solar desalination processes depends on capillary pumping
capacity of hydrophilic porous structure, and their rational design requires reliable models of …

Solar-driven hydrogen production from seawater attracts great interest for its emerging role
in decarbonizing global energy consumption. Given the complexity of natural seawater …

Passive fluid transport, which plays a crucial role in a wide range of processes from
engineering to biology field, is becoming increasingly attractive due to the prospect of a …

With the development of surface engineering, porous surfaces have emerged as a
significant research subject in boiling heat transfer. The latter, in turn, plays a crucial role in …

The superior capillary wicking capability of hierarchical surfaces determined by the capillary
pressure and viscous resistance plays a critical role in developing the high-efficient thermal …