Photothermal nanomaterials: a powerful light-to-heat converter

X Cui, Q Ruan, X Zhuo, X **a, J Hu, R Fu, Y Li… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
All forms of energy follow the law of conservation of energy, by which they can be neither
created nor destroyed. Light-to-heat conversion as a traditional yet constantly evolving …

Advances in photothermal regulation strategies: from efficient solar heating to daytime passive cooling

L Zhu, L Tian, S Jiang, L Han, Y Liang, Q Li… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Photothermal regulation concerning solar harvesting and repelling has recently attracted
significant interest due to the fast-growing research focus in the areas of solar heating for …

Nanostructured materials for photothermal carbon dioxide hydrogenation: regulating solar utilization and catalytic performance

C Lv, X Bai, S Ning, C Song, Q Guan, B Liu, Y Li, J Ye - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added fuels or chemicals through photothermal
catalytic CO2 hydrogenation is a promising approach to alleviate the energy shortage and …

Advances of 2D‐enabled photothermal materials in hybrid solar‐driven interfacial evaporation systems toward water‐fuel‐energy crisis

MS Irshad, N Arshad, MS Asghar, Y Hao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of a multi‐functional solar‐driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) system
remains a significant challenge for its large‐scale applications. By taking advantage of high …

Thermo-photo catalysis: a whole greater than the sum of its parts

S Fang, YH Hu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermo-photo catalysis, which is the catalysis with the participation of both thermal and
photo energies, not only reduces the large energy consumption of thermal catalysis but also …

Hybrid photothermal–photocatalyst sheets for solar-driven overall water splitting coupled to water purification

C Pornrungroj, AB Mohamad Annuar, Q Wang… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Photocatalytic water splitting converts sunlight directly into storable hydrogen, but commonly
involves the use of pure water and land for plant installation while generating unusable …

Cellulose‐based interfacial solar evaporators: structural regulation and performance manipulation

W Wu, Y Xu, X Ma, Z Tian, C Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The shortage of freshwater resources has become a major obstacle threatening human
development, and directly utilizing solar energy by solar evaporators is emerging as a …

Recent advances in designing ZnIn2S4-based heterostructured photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution

C Liu, Q Zhang, Z Zou - Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Water and solar energy are inexhaustible on Earth, and thus hydrogen evolution through
photocatalytic water splitting taking sunlight as the input energy is an ideal green energy …

High-crystalline/amorphous g-C3N4 S-scheme homojunction for boosted photocatalytic H2 production in water/simulated seawater: Interfacial charge transfer and …

H Sun, Y Shi, W Shi, F Guo - Applied Surface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic water and seawater splitting into H 2 is a promising strategy to attract the
attention of researchers due to unique advantages including environment-friendly, cost …

Hybrid solar-driven interfacial evaporation systems: Beyond water production towards high solar energy utilization

T Ding, Y Zhou, WL Ong, GW Ho - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Owing to its promising approach to tackling freshwater scarcity, solar-driven interfacial
evaporation (SDIE) which confines the photothermal heat at evaporating surface has …