Conventional desalination technologies play a central role in alleviating the crisis of
increasing freshwater shortages; however, they are impeded by high cost, intensive energy …

Janus membranes are an emerging class of materials having opposing properties at an
interface. This structure results in selective and often novel transport characteristics. In this …

Harvesting solar energy as heat has many applications, such as power generation,
residential water heating, desalination, distillation and wastewater treatment. However, the …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201500135 the application and the reuse of the plasmonic system. At
the present stage, it is not feasible to directly apply the assembled plasmonic film in such a …

Steam generation using solar energy provides the basis for many sustainable desalination,
sanitization, and process heating technologies. Recently, interest has arisen for low-cost …

Metal–organic framework (MOF)-derived carbon nanostructure photothermal materials have
attracted tremendous attention, and have shown remarkable potential in the application of …

Solar desalination is a promising and sustainable solution for water shortages in the future.
Interfacial solar‐to‐heat conversion for desalination has attracted increasing attention in the …

Unlike conventional optics, plasmonics enables unrivaled concentration of optical energy
well beyond the diffraction limit of light. However, a significant part of this energy is …

The interface solar-driven steam generation technology is a new type of solar energy
utilization technology that can simultaneously meet the needs of energy, environment, and …

This report investigates the influence of surface chemistry (or wettability) on the evaporation
performance of free-standing double-layered thin film on the surface of water. Such newly …