Interfacial solar evaporation: from fundamental research to applications

X Wu, Y Lu, X Ren, P Wu, D Chu, X Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, interfacial solar steam generation (ISSG), powered by natural sunlight
garnered significant attention due to its great potential for low‐cost and environmentally …

Advances in desalination technology and its environmental and economic assessment

Y Cai, J Wu, SQ Shi, J Li, KH Kim - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
The potential utility of seawater desalination technologies (such as thermal distillation,
membrane desalination, and solar steam generation) has been recognized with the growing …

Micro–nano water film enabled high-performance interfacial solar evaporation

Z Yu, Y Su, R Gu, W Wu, Y Li, S Cheng - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Interfacial solar evaporation holds great promise to address the freshwater shortage.
However, most interfacial solar evaporators are always filled with water throughout the …

Full biomass-derived multifunctional aerogel for solar-driven interfacial evaporation

J Wu, X Yang, X Jia, J Yang, X Miao, D Shao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Develo** high-efficient utilization of thermal energy, excellent water transport path and
mechanical stablility of biochar based solar-driven interfacial evaporator (SDIE) is critical for …

High-flux flowing interfacial water evaporation under multiple heating sources enabled by a biohybrid hydrogel

Z Yu, R Gu, Y Zhang, S Guo, S Cheng, SC Tan - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Interfacial water evaporation holds great promise in clean water production. However,
develo** the evaporator with a high evaporation rate and excellent antifouling property …

Bioinspired, Sustainable, High‐Efficiency Solar Evaporators for Sewage Purification

Z Wang, R **, S Zhang, X Han, P Guo… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To alleviate the severe water crisis, an interfacial solar evaporator provides a promising
method to produce freshwater. Although many superior solar evaporators present high …

3D thermoresponsive hydrogel with enhanced water uptake and active evaporation for effective interfacial solar steam generation

HW Lim, SH Park, SJ Lee - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
To mitigate the global water shortage problem, interfacial solar steam generation (ISSG)
technology, an eco-friendly desalination technology, has been actively studied. ISSG …

Development of MXene-decorated sodium alginate/SiO2@ n-docosane hierarchical phase-change microcapsules for solar-driven sustainable seawater desalination

M Zhang, K Sun, Z Zheng, H Liu, X Wang - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel type of MXene-decorated and sodium alginate (SA)-coated phase-change
microcapsules (hereafter named “MXene/SA/SiO 2-MEPCM”) was designed as a …

Highly efficient plasmonic wood/Ag/Pd photoabsorber in interfacial solar steam generation

K Goharshadi, SA Sajjadi, EK Goharshadi… - Materials Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, a hierarchical porous wood was coated with Ag and Pd plasmonic nanoparticles
(NPs) as double layer and was used as efficient photoabsorbers in interfacial solar steam …

Recent advancements and perspectives on processable natural biopolymers: Cellulose, chitosan, eggshell membrane, and silk fibroin

X Liang, S Guo, X Kuang, X Wan, L Liu, F Zhang… - Science Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of the global economy and the continuous consumption of fossil
resources, sustainable and biodegradable natural biomass has garnered extensive …