Recent advances of green electricity generation: potential in solar interfacial evaporation system

J Wang, X Cao, X Cui, H Wang, H Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) has played a pivotal role in optimizing water‐
energy utilization, reducing conventional power costs, and mitigating environmental impacts …

Hydrogels as promising platforms for solar-driven water evaporators

X **g, F Liu, T Abdiryim, X Liu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Water scarcity has forced people to develop advanced water purification techniques. Solar-
driven water treatment has the potential to produce clean water through utilizing solar …

Polyelectrolyte hydrogel‐functionalized photothermal sponge enables simultaneously continuous solar desalination and electricity generation without salt …

L Li, C Xue, Q Chang, X Ren, N Li, J Yang… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Technologies that can simultaneously generate electricity and desalinate seawater are
highly attractive and required to meet the increasing global demand for power and clean …

Self‐assembled nanofibrous hydrogels with tunable porous network for highly efficient solar desalination in strong brine

H Li, W Zhang, J Liu, M Sun, L Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogel‐based solar evaporators (HSEs) emerged as energy‐efficient designs for water
purification due to the reduced vaporization enthalpy in the hydrated polymeric network …

Ionization engineering of hydrogels enables highly efficient salt-impeded solar evaporation and night-time electricity harvesting

N He, H Wang, H Zhang, B Jiang, D Tang, L Li - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024‏ - Springer
Interfacial solar evaporation holds immense potential for brine desalination with low carbon
footprints and high energy utilization. Hydrogels, as a tunable material platform from the …

Nature‐Inspired Structure‐Engineered TiN/TiO2 Nanotubes Array Toward Solar Desalination Synergy with Photothermal‐Enhanced Degradation and Thermoelectric …

Y Du, P Liu, H Zhang, L Zou, K Deng… - Advanced Functional …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial evaporation systems are considered as promising technology to
alleviate the water scarcity crisis, yet lack of innovative evaporators obstructs further …

Recent advances in high‐rate solar‐driven interfacial evaporation

HT Kim, L Philip, A McDonagh, M Johir… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in solar‐driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) have led to high evaporation
rates that open promising avenues for practical utilization in freshwater production and …

Cost‐effective 3D‐printed bionic hydrogel evaporator for stable solar desalination

S Zhang, M Li, C Jiang, D Zhu, Z Zhang - Advanced Science, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Solar desalination using hydrogel evaporators is an eco‐friendly, highly efficient means with
natural sunlight for sustainable freshwater production. However, it remains challenging to …

Interfacial-heating solar desalination of high-salinity brine: Recent progress on salt management and water production

F He, H You, X Liu, X Shen, J Zhang, Z Wang - Chemical Engineering …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Interfacial-heating solar desalination (IHSD), a sustainable and efficient method of
harnessing solar energy to generate clean water, will contribute a meaningful technology to …

Tree-inspired structurally graded aerogel with synergistic water, salt, and thermal transport for high-salinity solar-powered evaporation

X Zhao, H Zhang, KY Chan, X Huang, Y Yang… - Nano-micro letters, 2024‏ - Springer
Solar-powered interfacial evaporation is an energy-efficient solution for water scarcity. It
requires solar absorbers to facilitate upward water transport and limit the heat to the surface …