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 …

Renewable energy systems for water desalination applications: A comprehensive review

SM Alawad, RB Mansour, FA Al-Sulaiman… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Renewable energy sources are expected to provide viable alternative solutions for water
desalination to address the issues of high-energy consumption and negative environmental …

Cost and efficiency perspectives of ceramic membranes for water treatment

Y Dong, H Wu, F Yang, S Gray - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
More robust ceramic membranes with tailorable structures and functions are increasingly
employed for water treatment, particularly in some harsh applications for their ultra-long …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of desalination membranes by interfacial polymerization: history, current efforts, and future directions

X Lu, M Elimelech - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Membrane desalination is a promising technology for addressing the global challenge of
water scarcity by augmenting fresh water supply. Continuous progress in this technology …

Electrocapacitive deionization: mechanisms, electrodes, and cell designs

K Sun, M Tebyetekerwa, C Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an emerging water desalination technology for removing
different ionic species from water, which is based on electric charge compensation by these …

Hydrophilicity gradient in covalent organic frameworks for membrane distillation

S Zhao, C Jiang, J Fan, S Hong, P Mei, R Yao, Y Liu… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Desalination can help to alleviate the fresh-water crisis facing the world. Thermally driven
membrane distillation is a promising way to purify water from a variety of saline and polluted …

Drivers, challenges, and emerging technologies for desalination of high-salinity brines: A critical review

KM Shah, IH Billinge, X Chen, H Fan, Y Huang… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination
and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming Ti3C2Tx MXene's intrinsic hydrophilicity into superhydrophobicity for efficient photothermal membrane desalination

B Zhang, PW Wong, J Guo, Y Zhou, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Owing to its 100% theoretical salt rejection capability, membrane distillation (MD) has
emerged as a promising seawater desalination approach to address freshwater scarcity …

Janus-interface engineering boosting solar steam towards high-efficiency water collection

H Yao, P Zhang, C Yang, Q Liao, X Hao… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar powered clean water production has been considered a favorable way to address the
problem of the global water shortage. Recently, the interfacial solar-steam generation …

Wetting, scaling, and fouling in membrane distillation: state-of-the-art insights on fundamental mechanisms and mitigation strategies

T Horseman, Y Yin, KSS Christie, Z Wang… - ACS ES&T …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Membrane distillation (MD) has been garnering increasing attention in research and
development, since it has been proposed as a promising technology for desalinating …