Carbon materials for solar water evaporation and desalination

W Guan, Y Guo, G Yu - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Seawater desalination is viewed as a promising solution to world freshwater scarcity. Solar
assisted desalination is proposed to overcome the high energy consumption in current …

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 …

The advent of thermoplasmonic membrane distillation

S Santoro, AH Avci, A Politano, E Curcio - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Freshwater scarcity is a vital societal challenge related to climate change, population
pressure, and agricultural and industrial demands. Therefore, sustainable desalination …

Heat-localized solar evaporation: Transport processes and applications

C Du, X Zhao, X Qian, C Huang, R Yang - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar evaporation by heat localization has drawn intensive research interest recent years,
because this potential desalination technology is free of fossil fuel consumption and carbon …

Nature sunflower stalk pith with zwitterionic hydrogel coating for highly efficient and sustainable solar evaporation

X Su, D Hao, M Sun, T Wei, D Xu, X Ai… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven water evaporation is considered to be an appealing way to solve water scarcity
issues globally. Various natural creatures possess unique structural features and exhibit an …

Recent advances in interfacial solar vapor generation: clean water production and beyond

S Yu, Y Gu, X Chao, G Huang, D Shou - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Interfacial solar vapor generation (ISVG) was first proposed in 2014 and it has gained more
and more attention from academia due to its tremendous improvement in evaporation …

A waste biomass-derived photothermic material with high salt-resistance for efficient solar evaporation

HS Guan, TT Fan, HY Bai, Y Su, Z Liu, X Ning, M Yu… - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Effective use of solar energy to produce steam for solving the problem of global shortage of
fresh water is considered to be a promising technology. In this work, we reported a low-cost …

A State-of-the-art review on action mechanism of photothermal catalytic reduction of CO2 in full solar spectrum

Z Wang, Z Yang, R Fang, Y Yan, J Ran… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
The utilization of sunlight and the catalytic effect of the photothermal catalytic reduction of
CO 2 in the full solar spectrum are improved based on photocatalysis, providing new ideas …

MoS2@ In2S3/Bi2S3 Core-shell dual Z-scheme tandem heterojunctions with Broad-spectrum response and enhanced Photothermal-photocatalytic performance

Y Wang, Z Xing, H Zhao, S Song, M Liu, Z Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Oxygen-doped MoS 2@ In 2 S 3/Bi 2 S 3 core-shell dual Z-scheme tandem
heterojunctions are fabricated via two-step hydrothermal methods. In 2 S 3 and Bi 2 S 3 …

State‐of‐the‐art advances, development, and challenges of metal oxide semiconductor nanomaterials for photothermal solar steam generation

KW Tan, CM Yap, Z Zheng, CY Haw… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar steam generation has drawn high levels of attention from the research community in
recent years due to its wide application and abundantly available energy source—sunlight …