Recent advances and challenges for bionic solar water evaporation

Z Zhan, Y Su, M **e, Y Li, Y Shuai, Z Wang - Materials Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar water evaporation is a sustainable, efficient, and environmental friendly solution to the
freshwater production and energy crisis, which is drawing intensive research interest in …

Long-chain anionic surfactants enabling stable perovskite/silicon tandems with greatly suppressed stress corrosion

X Wang, Z Ying, J Zheng, X Li, Z Zhang, C **ao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the remarkable rise in the efficiency of perovskite-based solar cells, the stress-
induced intrinsic instability of perovskite active layers is widely identified as a critical hurdle …

Building Functional Liquid‐Based Interfaces: From Mechanism to Application

Y Fan, X Huang, J Ji, W Zhang, J Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Functional liquid‐based interfaces, with their inhomogeneous regions that emphasize the
functionalized liquids, have attracted much interest as a versatile platform for a broad …

Ionic effect on the microenvironment of biomolecular condensates

L Zhu, Y Pan, Z Hua, Y Liu, X Zhang - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Biomolecules such as proteins and RNA could organize to form condensates with distinct
microenvironments through liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS). Recent works have …

Ion-specific water–macromolecule interactions at the air/aqueous interface: an insight into Hofmeister effect

B Rana, DJ Fairhurst, KC Jena - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The specificity of ions in inducing conformational changes in macromolecules is introduced
as the Hofmeister series; however, the detailed underlying mechanism is not …

Architecting the Water State of Polypyrrole/Polyvinyl Alochol‐Wood Evaporator to Enhance Water Yield in Multistage Solar Stiller

A Shen, J Tang, Y Shao, J Chen, Y Liu, D Wang… - Solar …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar desalination is one of the most promising ways to produce freshwater. Interfacial solar
steam generation system is especially studied for its high solar–thermal conversion …

Effect of counterions on the structure and dynamics of water near a negatively charged surfactant: a theoretical vibrational sum frequency generation study

R Malik, S Saito, A Chandra - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Charged aqueous interfaces are of paramount importance in electrochemical, biological and
environmental sciences. The properties of aqueous interfaces with ionic surfactants can be …

Significantly accelerated photochemical perfluorooctanoic acid decomposition at the air–water interface of microdroplets

K Li, W You, W Wang, K Gong, Y Liu… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The efficient elimination of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) from the
environment remains a huge challenge and requires advanced technologies. Herein, we …

Liquid–Vapor Coexistence and Spontaneous Evaporation at Atmospheric Pressure of Common Rigid Three-Point Water Models in Molecular Simulations

PK Quoika, M Zacharias - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are widely used to investigate molecular systems at
atomic resolution including biomolecular structures, drug–receptor interactions, and novel …

[HTML][HTML] Sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy at surfaces and interfaces: Adsorbate structure and molecular bond orientation

X Li, G Rupprechter - Surface Science Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Infrared (IR)-visible (Vis) sum frequency generation (SFG) is a second-order
nonlinear optical process which is forbidden in centrosymmetric bulk media or isotropic …