Solar-driven interfacial evaporation: design and application progress of structural evaporators and functional distillers

J Wang, Y Kong, Z Liu, H Wang - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation technology (TSDIE), which directly uses solar energy to
evaporate and purify water, is an emerging solution to address the shortage of freshwater …

Engineered two-dimensional nanomaterials: an emerging paradigm for water purification and monitoring

M Zeng, M Chen, D Huang, S Lei, X Zhang… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Water scarcity has become an increasingly complex challenge with the growth of the global
population, economic expansion, and climate change, highlighting the demand for …

Water Skin Effect and Arched Double‐Sided Evaporation for Boosting All‐Weather High Salinity Desalination

C Wang, K Xu, G Shi, D Wei - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
High efficiency, long‐term salt rejection, and continuous operation under all‐weather
conditions have always been the goals of solar‐driven desalination of high salinity brine …

Solar–thermal water evaporation: a review

Y Pang, J Zhang, R Ma, Z Qu, E Lee, T Luo - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Solar–thermal water evaporation (SWE) has received much interest in recent years due to a
few seminal works on materials innovation and thermal management. With many studies …

Low-cost bilayered structure for improving the performance of solar stills: Performance/cost analysis and water yield prediction using machine learning

AH Elsheikh, S Shanmugan, R Sathyamurthy… - Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims to enhance the performance of conventional solar still (CSS) using a low
cost heat localization bilayered structure (HLBS). The HLBS consists of a bottom supporting …

Controllable synthesis of sea urchin-like carbon from metal-organic frameworks for advanced solar vapor generators

P He, L Hao, N Liu, H Bai, R Niu, J Gong - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar evaporation is considered as a hopeful technology for producing freshwater from non-
potable water using inexhaustible solar energy. However, solar evaporators with high …

Controllable synthesis of N/Co-doped carbon from metal–organic frameworks for integrated solar vapor generation and advanced oxidation processes

P He, H Bai, Z Fan, L Hao, N Liu, B Chen… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Interfacial solar-driven vapor generation is considered to be a promising technology to
produce freshwater from non-potable water. However, when the source water contains …

MXene aerogel-based phase change materials toward solar energy conversion

P Lin, J **e, Y He, X Lu, W Li, J Fang, S Yan… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Two-dimensional transition-metal carbides/carbonitrides (MXenes) have demonstrated wide
application prospect in energy conversion and storage, mostly in the form of electrochemical …

Cu-based MOF-derived porous carbon with highly efficient photothermal conversion performance for solar steam evaporation

G Chen, Z Jiang, A Li, X Chen, Z Ma… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic framework (MOF)-derived carbon nanostructure photothermal materials have
attracted tremendous attention, and have shown remarkable potential in the application of …

Potentially scalable fabrication of salt-rejection evaporator based on electrogenerated polypyrrole-coated nickel foam for efficient solar steam generation

S Wang, Y Fan, F Wang, Y Su, X Zhou, Z Zhu, H Sun… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar steam generation (SSG) is a green and sustainable way for desalination. Herein, we
report for the first time the electrodeposition fabrication of bilayer photothermal material …