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 …

Thermoplasmonics in solar energy conversion: materials, nanostructured designs, and applications

B Yang, C Li, Z Wang, Q Dai - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The indispensable requirement for sustainable development of human society has forced
almost all countries to seek highly efficient and cost‐effective ways to harvest and convert …

A review on photothermal material and its usage in the development of photothermal membrane for sustainable clean water production

NS Fuzil, NH Othman, NH Alias, F Marpani… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Tap** into solar energy seems to be a viable and sustainable solution for the ongoing
global challenges of water scarcity and clean energy shortage. However, the natural …

Membranes in solar‐driven evaporation: design principles and applications

HC Yang, F Lu, HN Li, C Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven evaporation process brings exciting opportunities to recover clean water and
resources in a sustainable way from diverse sources like seawater and wastewater …

Purifying water with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)-incorporated membranes: Recent advancements and critical challenges

Y Yu, Z Zhou, G Huang, H Cheng, L Han, S Zhao… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
In the face of the growing global water crisis, membrane technology is a promising means of
purifying water and wastewater. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have been widely used to …

State-of-the-art methods for overcoming temperature polarization in membrane distillation process: A review

A Anvari, AA Yancheshme, KM Kekre… - Journal of membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) technology has been mainly used as a treatment method for
saline or contaminated wastewater. Despite the rapid progress in material engineering and …

Self-surface heating membrane distillation for sustainable production of freshwater: A state of the art overview

TM Subrahmanya, HFM Austria, YY Chen… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Shortage of freshwater is a global challenge related to population growth, changes in
climate conditions and industrial and agricultural needs. Thus, sustainable freshwater …

MXene-PVA-TiO2-based photothermal-catalytic membrane with high structural stability for efficient desalination and photodegradation

J Sun, MU Farid, MW Boey, Y Sato, G Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar energy is regarded as the most attractive energy source for producing clean water and
green energy, as well as for photocatalytic pollutants removal. MXene, a 2D photothermal …

Novel solar membrane distillation enabled by a PDMS/CNT/PVDF membrane with localized heating

J Huang, Y Hu, Y Bai, Y He, J Zhu - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation as a means of seawater desalination using solar energy has the
potential to help address the challenges associated with the water-energy nexus and reduce …

Scalable fabrication of conjugated microporous polymer sponges for efficient solar steam generation

Y Shi, N Meng, Y Wang, Z Cheng… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Seawater evaporation realized by solar-thermal conversion represents one of the most
sustainable and effective strategies to obtain fresh water. Many approaches have been …