Solar-powered sustainable water production: state-of-the-art technologies for sunlight–energy–water nexus

Z Li, X Xu, X Sheng, P Lin, J Tang, L Pan, YV Kaneti… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Alternative water resources (seawater, brackish water, atmospheric water, sewage, etc.) can
be converted into clean freshwater via high-efficiency, energy-saving, and cost-effective …

Metal–organic frameworks for water desalination

S Dutta, RF de Luis, J Goscianska… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid industrialization and ever‐increasing global population culminate in continuous
upsurge in freshwater crisis worldwide. The most reliable and promising solution to this …

Engineering in situ catalytic cleaning membrane via prebiotic‐chemistry‐inspired mineralization

X Yang, Y Wen, Y Li, L Yan, CY Tang, J Ma… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pressure‐driven membrane separation promises a sustainable energy‐water nexus but is
hindered by ubiquitous fouling. Natural systems evolved from prebiotic chemistry offer a …

Enhanced and synergistic catalytic activation by photoexcitation driven S− scheme heterojunction hydrogel interface electric field

A Wang, M Du, J Ni, D Liu, Y Pan, X Liang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The regulation of heterogeneous material properties to enhance the peroxymonosulfate
(PMS) activation to degrade emerging organic pollutants remains a challenge. To solve this …

Enhanced Solar Evaporation Using a Scalable MoS2‐Based Hydrogel for Highly Efficient Solar Desalination

P Liu, Y Hu, XY Li, L Xu, C Chen, B Yuan… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Interfacial photo‐vapor conversion has been suggested as a cost‐effective and sustainable
technology for seawater desalination. However, the conversion performance was still limited …

Freestanding Ti3C2Tx MXene/Prussian Blue Analogues Films with Superior Ion Uptake for Efficient Capacitive Deionization by a Dual Pseudocapacitance Effect

S Wang, Z Li, G Wang, Y Wang, Z Ling, C Li - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Exploring and designing high-performance Faradaic electrode materials is of great
significance to enhance the desalination performance of hybrid capacitive deionization …

Removing miscellaneous heavy metals by all-in-one ion exchange-nanofiltration membrane

ZJ Fu, SK Jiang, XY Chao, CX Zhang, Q Shi, ZY Wang… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The composition of wastewater containing heavy metal mixtures is often complex and poses
a serious threat to human and environmental health. Effective removal of a variety of heavy …

A customized MOF-polymer composite for rapid gold extraction from water matrices

T Xue, T He, L Peng, OA Syzgantseva, R Li, C Liu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
With the fast-growing accumulation of electronic waste and rising demand for rare metals, it
is compelling to develop technologies that can promotionally recover targeted metals, like …

Halogen hydrogen-bonded organic framework (XHOF) constructed by singlet open-shell diradical for efficient photoreduction of U (VI)

L Feng, Y Yuan, B Yan, T Feng, Y Jian, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Synthesis of framework materials possessing specific spatial structures or containing
functional ligands has attracted tremendous attention. Herein, a halogen hydrogen-bonded …

Tailoring the salt transport flux of solar evaporators for a highly effective salt-resistant desalination with high productivity

H Yang, Y Sun, M Peng, M Cai, B Zhao, D Li, Z Liang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Develo** highly effective salt-resistant solar evaporators for a long-term desalination with
a high evaporation rate and water production rate remains a great challenge. Herein, we …