Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global
population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution. Water …

Greenhouse gas emissions associated with power generation from fossil fuel combustion
account for 25% of global emissions and, thus, contribute greatly to climate change …

Owing to its promising approach to tackling freshwater scarcity, solar-driven interfacial
evaporation (SDIE) which confines the photothermal heat at evaporating surface has …

Osmotic power generation, the extraction of power from mixing salt solutions of different
concentrations, can provide an efficient power source for both nanoscale and industrial-level …

The salinity gradient between seawater and river water is a clean energy source and an
alternative solution for the increasing energy demands. A membrane-based reverse …

Further reduction in energy consumption is an attractive prospect for both well-established
technologies such as reverse osmosis and electrodialysis, and for emerging desalination …

Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is an emerging membrane based technology that captures
electricity from controlled mixing of two water streams of different salinities. To date, great …

Solar-driven water evaporation is a sustainable method for obtaining clean water, but the
use of high-salinity seawater as a by-product of the desalination process has not been …

Solar-driven interfacial water evaporation, which concentrates solar heating at the water
surface, has attracted increasing interest in pursuing highly efficient solar desalination. The …

Capacitive deionization (CDI) has attracted a great attention as a promising desalination
technology, and studies on CDI have increased significantly in the last ten years. However …