Going beyond efficiency for solar evaporation

N Xu, J Li, C Finnerty, Y Song, L Zhou, B Zhu, P Wang… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Interfacial solar evaporation, which captures solar energy and localizes the generated heat
for evaporating water molecules, is regarded as an important emerging strategy for solar …

Piezocatalytic techniques in environmental remediation

J Liu, W Qi, M Xu, T Thomas, S Liu… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As a consequence of rapid industrialization throughout the world, various environmental
pollutants have begun to accumulate in water, air, and soil. This endangers the ecological …

Zinc oxide nanorods for light-activated gas sensing and photocatalytic applications

Q Zhang, G **e, M Duan, Y Liu, Y Cai… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The demand for environmental monitoring and remediation stimulates tremendous research
efforts to develop highly efficient and advanced functional nanomaterials capable of …

Regulating ion affinity and dehydration of metal-organic framework sub-nanochannels for high-precision ion separation

RJ Mo, S Chen, LQ Huang, XL Ding, S Rafique… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Membrane consisting of ordered sub-nanochannels has been pursued in ion separation
technology to achieve applications including desalination, environment management, and …

Wood-inspired metamaterial catalyst for robust and high-throughput water purification

L Zhang, H Liu, B Song, J Gu, L Li, W Shi, G Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Continuous industrialization and other human activities have led to severe water quality
deterioration by harmful pollutants. Achieving robust and high-throughput water purification …

Single-Atom MnN5 Catalytic Sites Enable Efficient Peroxymonosulfate Activation by Forming Highly Reactive Mn(IV)–Oxo Species

J Miao, J Song, J Lang, Y Zhu, J Dai… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Four-nitrogen-coordinated transitional metal (MN4) configurations in single-atom catalysts
(SACs) are broadly recognized as the most efficient active sites in peroxymonosulfate (PMS) …

Two-dimensional MXene membranes with biomimetic sub-nanochannels for enhanced cation sieving

R Xu, Y Kang, W Zhang, B Pan, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Membranes with high ion permeability and selectivity are of considerable interest for
sustainable water treatment, resource extraction and energy storage. Herein, inspired by K+ …

Rational Regulation of Co–N–C Coordination for High-Efficiency Generation of 1O2 toward Nearly 100% Selective Degradation of Organic Pollutants

Y Yao, C Wang, X Yan, H Zhang, C **ao… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Single oxygen-based advanced oxidation processes (1O2-AOPs) exhibit great prospects in
selective degradation of organic pollutants. However, efficient production of 1O2 via tailored …

Review on recent progress in magnetic nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization, and diverse applications

A Ali, T Shah, R Ullah, P Zhou, M Guo, M Ovais… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Diverse applications of nanoparticles (NPs) have revolutionized various sectors in society. In
the recent decade, particularly magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have gained enormous …

Porous organic polymers (POPs) for environmental remediation

S Fajal, S Dutta, SK Ghosh - Materials Horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Modern global industrialization along with the ever-increasing growth of the population has
resulted in continuous enhancement in the discharge and accumulation of various toxic and …