Robust and durable liquid-repellent surfaces

F Chen, Y Wang, Y Tian, D Zhang, J Song… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid-repellent surfaces, such as superhydrophobic surfaces, superoleophobic surfaces,
and slippery liquid-infused surfaces, have drawn keen research interest from the …

Water activation in solar‐powered vapor generation

D Wei, C Wang, J Zhang, H Zhao, Y Asakura… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐powered vapor evaporation (SVG), based on the liquid‐gas phase conversion
concept using solar energy, has been given close attention as a promising technology to …

Bioinspired asymmetric amphiphilic surface for triboelectric enhanced efficient water harvesting

S Zhang, M Chi, J Mo, T Liu, Y Liu, Q Fu, J Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The effective acquisition of clean water from atmospheric water offers a potential sustainable
solution for increasing global water and energy shortages. In this study, an asymmetric …

Super‐fast fog collector based on self‐driven jet of mini fog droplets

D Yan, Y Chen, J Liu, J Song - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater scarcity crisis threatens human life and economic security. Collecting water from
the fog seems to be an effective method to defuse this crisis. Nonetheless, the existing fog …

Bioinspired superwetting materials for water manipulation

X Leng, L Sun, Y Long, Y Lu - Droplet, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water manipulation is crucial for a wide range of engineering applications, such as
microfluidics, heat transfer, desalination, and water harvesting. Despite scientific …

Hierarchical Engineering of Sorption‐Based Atmospheric Water Harvesters

Y Song, M Zeng, X Wang, P Shi, M Fei… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Harvesting water from air in sorption‐based devices is a promising solution to decentralized
water production, aiming for providing potable water anywhere, anytime. This technology …

Advances in solar evaporator materials for freshwater generation

S Cao, Q Jiang, X Wu, D Ghim, HG Derami… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
To alleviate the scarcity of clean water, solar steam generation, which utilizes the green and
abundant resources of Earth, has attracted considerable attention and been recognized as a …

Recent advances in atmosphere water harvesting: Design principle, materials, devices, and applications

B Wang, X Zhou, Z Guo, W Liu - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Atmosphere water harvest offers a creative and straightforward way to tackle the global-
range freshwater shortage, especially in remote areas and arid deserts. Inspired by the …

Macroporous hydrogel for high-performance atmospheric water harvesting

T Lyu, Z Wang, R Liu, K Chen, H Liu… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Simple, low-cost, and high-performance atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) still remains
challenging in the context of global water shortage. Here, we present a simple and low-cost …

Pushing the limit of beetle‐inspired condensation on biphilic quasi‐liquid surfaces

D Boylan, D Monga, L Shan, Z Guo… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Massive studies concern the development of low‐carbon water and energy systems.
Specifically, surfaces with special wettability to promote vapor‐to‐liquid condensation have …