Potential and challenges of improving solar still by micro/nano-particles and porous materials-A review

G Peng, SW Sharshir, Y Wang, M An, D Ma… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar still (SS), being one of the convenient solar desalination systems, has been widely
studied in terms of their productivity, efficiency, and economics during the last decades …

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 …

The membrane-based desalination: Focus on MOFs and COFs

X Qin, X Qin, X Xu, J Zhao, Y Gui, H Guo, J Mao… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rapid growth of global population and the continuous civilization and
industrialization, the freshwater resource crisis has become one of the most important …

Nanoconfined fluids: What can we expect from them?

C Sun, R Zhou, Z Zhao, B Bai - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nanoconfined fluids (NCFs), which are confined in nanospaces, exhibit distinctive
nanoscale effects, including surface effects, small-size effects, quantum effects, and others …

Evaporation in nano/molecular materials

A Davoodabadi, H Ghasemi - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Evaporation is a physical phenomenon with fundamental significance to both nature and
technology ranging from plant transpiration to DNA engineering. Various analytical and …

Enhanced water evaporation from Å-scale graphene nanopores

WC Lee, A Ronghe, LF Villalobos, S Huang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Enhancing the kinetics of liquid–vapor transition from nanoscale confinements is an
attractive strategy for develo** evaporation and separation applications. The ultimate limit …

Evaporation-driven liquid flow through nanochannels

JC Fan, HA Wu, FC Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Evaporation-driven liquid flow through nanochannels has attracted extensive attention over
recent years due to its applications in mass and heat transfer as well as energy harvesting. A …

Mechanistic investigation of electrostatic field‐enhanced water evaporation

J Fei, B Ding, SW Koh, J Ge, X Wang, L Lee… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Investigations on external electrostatic field (EEF)‐enhanced liquid water evaporation have
been reported decades ago, which suggest that molecular alignment and polarization tuned …

Solar-driven abnormal evaporation of nanoconfined water

Q **a, Y Pan, B Liu, X Zhang, E Li, T Shen, S Li… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Intrinsic water evaporation demands a high energy input, which limits the efficacy of
conventional interfacial solar evaporators. Here, we propose a nanoconfinement strategy …

Edge-enhanced ultrafast water evaporation from graphene nanopores

S **ao, K Meng, Q **e, L Zhai, Z Xu, H Wang… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2022 - cell.com
Graphene nanoporous membranes are the ultimate ultrathin nanoporous membranes and
have enormous potential applications due to efficient heat and mass transfer that is limited …