Structure integration and architecture of solar-driven interfacial desalination from miniaturization designs to industrial applications

C Dang, Y Cao, H Nie, W Lang, J Zhang, G Xu, M Zhu - Nature Water, 2024 - nature.com
Solar desalination holds great promise for addressing global water scarcity and reducing
carbon footprints. In recent years, thermally localized solar interfacial desalination processes …

Bridging materials innovations to sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting devices

Y Zhong, L Zhang, X Li, B El Fil, CD Díaz-Marín… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The atmosphere contains 13,000 trillion litres of water, and it is a natural resource available
anywhere. Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH) is capable of extracting …

Highly efficient and salt rejecting solar evaporation via a wick-free confined water layer

L Zhang, X Li, Y Zhong, A Leroy, Z Xu, L Zhao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advances in thermally localized solar evaporation hold significant promise for vapor
generation, seawater desalination, wastewater treatment, and medical sterilization …

Understanding interfacial properties for enhanced solar evaporation devices: from geometrical to physical interfaces

S Liu, S Li, M Lin - ACS Energy Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Various materials and device configurations have been reported to enhance the evaporation
efficiency of solar interfacial evaporation systems, but it has not yet been revealed how to …

Passive, high-efficiency thermally-localized solar desalination

L Zhang, Z Xu, L Zhao, B Bhatia, Y Zhong… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar desalination holds significant promise for the water-energy nexus. Recent advances in
passive solar desalination using thermal localization show great potential for high-efficiency …

Heat-localized solar evaporation: Transport processes and applications

C Du, X Zhao, X Qian, C Huang, R Yang - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar evaporation by heat localization has drawn intensive research interest recent years,
because this potential desalination technology is free of fossil fuel consumption and carbon …

Progress and performance of multi-stage solar still–A review

G Peng, SW Sharshir - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar desalination provides a clean and economical way for freshwater supply, thus
becoming more and more promising. In this work, the research progress of multi-stage solar …

Key pathways for efficient solar thermal desalination

J Huang, H Zheng, H Kong - Energy Conversion and Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Along with the decline of fresh water resources, desalination has grown in an increasingly
significant technology. The utilization of sustainable energy sources, especially solar …

Solar passive distiller with high productivity and Marangoni effect-driven salt rejection

M Morciano, M Fasano, SV Boriskina… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene in remote locations, develo** countries,
and disaster zones fuel the growing demand for efficient small-scale desalination …

Interfacial solar steam/vapor generation for heating and cooling

X Li, W **e, J Zhu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Interfacial solar steam/vapor technology uses abundant and clean solar energy and water to
achieve heating and cooling, a promising technology to alleviate environmental and energy …