Photothermal fabrics for solar-driven seawater desalination

J Hu, Y Sun, Z Liu, B Zhu, L Zhang, N Xu, M Zhu… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar-driven seawater desalination has received massive attention as it holds great promise
to solve the worldwide freshwater and energy issues. The key of this technology relies on …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances on bast fiber composites: Engineering innovations, applications and perspectives

S Zhu, J **e, Q Sun, Z Zhang, J Wan, Z Zhou… - Composites Part B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Plant fibers are a class of biomass resources one of most abundant materials on earth. The
bast fiber, as one of the plant fibers with superior specific stiffness and strength, has received …

Recent advances in interfacial solar vapor generation: clean water production and beyond

S Yu, Y Gu, X Chao, G Huang, D Shou - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Interfacial solar vapor generation (ISVG) was first proposed in 2014 and it has gained more
and more attention from academia due to its tremendous improvement in evaporation …

A Lotus Seedpods‐Inspired Interfacial Solar Steam Generator with Outstanding Salt Tolerance and Mechanical Properties for Efficient and Stable Seawater …

H Ma, L Yu, Z Li, J Chen, J Meng, Q Song, Y Liu… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Interfacial solar steam generators (ISSGs) can capture solar energy and concentrate the
heat at the gas–liquid interface, resulting in efficient water evaporation. However, traditional …

A review: Fabric-based solar driven interfacial evaporator

J Li, L Mu, Q Liu, Y Zhang, R Zhang, X Zhu, CL Sun… - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The world population is growing rapidly and water pollution is becoming a serious problem.
Consequently, the scarcity of fresh water resources is becoming increasingly apparent and …

Suspended membrane evaporators integrating environmental and solar evaporation for oily wastewater purification

SL Wu, LN Quan, YT Huang, YT Li… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven evaporation is promising in oily wastewater treatment, in particular for
emulsions, but conventional evaporators suffer from pore blocking by residual oil or …

Highly effective multifunctional solar evaporator with scaffolding structured carbonized wood and biohydrogel

J Chen, M Jian, X Yang, X **a, J Pang… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A solar evaporator that utilizes solar radiation energy can be a renewable approach to deal
with energy crisis and fresh water shortage. In this study, a solar evaporator was prepared …

Bifunctional in situ polymerized nanocomposites for convective solar desalination and enhanced photo-thermoelectric power generation

MS Irshad, X Wang, N Arshad, MQ Javed… - Environmental …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The inadequate supply of water and energy in remote areas poses a risk to human life,
which can be overcome via the use of portable solar-driven evaporation setups. However …

Stable and salt-resistant Janus evaporator based on cellulose composite aerogels from waste cotton fabric

MK Alam, M He, W Chen, L Wang, X Li… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Solar steam generation has been considered a promising approach for using renewable
solar energy to produce clean water from seawater and wastewater. It shows great potential …

Synergistic work of photo-thermoelectric and hydroelectric effects of hierarchical structure photo-thermoelectric textile for solar energy harvesting and solar steam …

X Zhang, BC Shiu, TT Li, X Liu, HT Ren, Y Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Human body microenvironment adaptive power generator with multifunction is attractive for
the development of portable wearable devices. Here, a PEDOT-based photo-thermoelectric …