Materials engineering for atmospheric water harvesting: progress and perspectives

H Lu, W Shi, Y Guo, W Guan, C Lei, G Yu - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is emerging as a promising strategy to produce fresh
water from abundant airborne moisture to overcome the global clean water shortage. The …

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 …

Ultrahigh solar-driven atmospheric water production enabled by scalable rapid-cycling water harvester with vertically aligned nanocomposite sorbent

J Xu, T Li, T Yan, S Wu, M Wu, J Chao, X Huo… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Freshwater scarcity is a globally significant challenge threatening the development of
human society. Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting offers an appealing way to …

Exceptional water production yield enabled by batch-processed portable water harvester in semi-arid climate

H Shan, C Li, Z Chen, W Ying, P Poredoš, Z Ye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting has the potential to realize water production
anytime, anywhere, but reaching a hundred-gram high water yield in semi-arid climates is …

Polyzwitterionic hydrogels for efficient atmospheric water harvesting

C Lei, Y Guo, W Guan, H Lu, W Shi… - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is regarded as one of the promising strategies for
freshwater production desirable to provide sustainable water for landlocked and arid …

Salting-in effect of zwitterionic polymer hydrogel facilitates atmospheric water harvesting

S Aleid, M Wu, R Li, W Wang, C Zhang… - ACS Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hygroscopic salt-hydrogel composite sorbents have attracted increasing attention for
atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) applications but suffer from the salting-out effect. To …

Topology‐controlled hydration of polymer network in hydrogels for solar‐driven wastewater treatment

X Zhou, Y Guo, F Zhao, W Shi, G Yu - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial evaporation provides a promising method for sustainable freshwater
production. However, high energy consumption of vapor generation fundamentally restricts …

Hydrogel materials for sustainable water resources harvesting & treatment: Synthesis, mechanism and applications

Z Zhang, H Fu, Z Li, J Huang, Z Xu, Y Lai, X Qian… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, with the development of global industry and the increase of
population, the shortage of freshwater resources has prompted people to conduct in-depth …

Sorbents for atmospheric water harvesting: from design principles to applications

W Shi, W Guan, C Lei, G Yu - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity caused by climate change and population growth poses a grave threat to
human society. Of the different water purification technologies put forward, one presents a …

Atmospheric water harvesting by large-scale radiative cooling cellulose-based fabric

Y Zhang, W Zhu, C Zhang, J Peoples, X Li… - Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) has received tremendous interest because of
population growth, limited freshwater resources, and water pollution. However, key …