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 …

Salt mitigation strategies of solar‐driven interfacial desalination

K Xu, C Wang, Z Li, S Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial desalination (SDID), which is based on localized heating and
interfacial evaporation, provides an opportunity for develo** environmentally friendly and …

Hierarchically structured black gold film with ultrahigh porosity for solar steam generation

Y Zhang, Y Wang, B Yu, K Yin, Z Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic metals demonstrate significant potential for solar steam generation (SSG)
because of their localized surface plasmon resonance effect. However, the inherently …

Recent advanced self-propelling salt-blocking technologies for passive solar-driven interfacial evaporation desalination systems

M Sheng, Y Yang, X Bin, S Zhao, C Pan, F Nawaz… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional active seawater evaporation technologies, that is, they include components
with mechanical moving parts, generally involve large plants with high capital and operating …

Structure architecting for salt‐rejecting solar interfacial desalination to achieve high‐performance evaporation with in situ energy generation

Y Zhang, T **ong, DK Nandakumar… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The past few years have witnessed a rapid development of solar‐driven interfacial
evaporation, a promising technology for low‐cost water desalination. As of today, solar‐to …

Innovative salt-blocking technologies of photothermal materials in solar-driven interfacial desalination

F Nawaz, Y Yang, S Zhao, M Sheng, C Pan… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent decades, the rapid development of solar water evaporation has been achieved,
focusing on low-cost and energy water desalination. For this purpose, different photothermal …

Salt-rejecting solar interfacial evaporation

G Liu, T Chen, J Xu, G Yao, J **e, Y Cheng… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
Solar evaporation offers a promising approach to drive the distillation process, and
nanotechnology may help overcome operational issues such as salt fouling. Here, we …

Harnessing solar‐driven photothermal effect toward the water–energy nexus

C Zhang, HQ Liang, ZK Xu, Z Wang - Advanced Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Producing affordable freshwater has been considered as a great societal challenge, and
most conventional desalination technologies are usually accompanied with large energy …

Bioinspired fractal design of waste biomass‐derived solar–thermal materials for highly efficient solar evaporation

Y Geng, W Sun, P Ying, Y Zheng, J Ding… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Solar evaporation is considered a promising technology to address the issue of fresh water
scarcity. Although many efforts have been directed towards increasing the solar–thermal …

Hierarchically designed salt‐resistant solar evaporator based on donnan effect for stable and high‐performance brine treatment

W Zhao, H Gong, Y Song, B Li, N Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Interfacial solar evaporation is considered to be a promising technology to treat brine with
high energy transfer efficiency and a minimized carbon footprint. However, salt accumulation …