Interfacial solar evaporation: from fundamental research to applications

X Wu, Y Lu, X Ren, P Wu, D Chu, X Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, interfacial solar steam generation (ISSG), powered by natural sunlight
garnered significant attention due to its great potential for low‐cost and environmentally …

Electrochemical methods for water purification, ion separations, and energy conversion

MA Alkhadra, X Su, ME Suss, H Tian, EN Guyes… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global
population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution. Water …

Improving solar still performance with heat pipe/pulsating heat pipe evacuated tube solar collectors and PCM: An experimental and environmental analysis

A Hemmatian, H Kargarsharifabad, AA Esfahlani… - Solar Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
This study comparatively assesses the efficiency of various single-slope solar stills
employing thermosyphon and pulsating heat pipe evacuated solar collectors, integrated with …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art of renewable energy sources used in water desalination: Present and future prospects

J Bundschuh, M Kaczmarczyk, N Ghaffour… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen a worldwide increase in the use of alternative energy sources,
especially renewable energy (RE), including its application in desalination. In the past many …

Challenges and opportunities for solar evaporation

C Chen, Y Kuang, L Hu - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
Solar evaporation is an ancient technology that has regained tremendous attention because
of the abundance of solar energy, widely available water sources, and facile facilities in …

A high‐performance self‐regenerating solar evaporator for continuous water desalination

Y Kuang, C Chen, S He, EM Hitz, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging solar desalination by interfacial evaporation shows great potential in response to
global water scarcity because of its high solar‐to‐vapor efficiency, low environmental …

Topology‐controlled hydration of polymer network in hydrogels for solar‐driven wastewater treatment

X Zhou, Y Guo, F Zhao, W Shi, G Yu - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial evaporation provides a promising method for sustainable freshwater
production. However, high energy consumption of vapor generation fundamentally restricts …

Hydrogels as an emerging material platform for solar water purification

X Zhou, Y Guo, F Zhao, G Yu - Accounts of chemical research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Growing concern over water scarcity leads to increased research interest in
advanced water purification technologies. Solar water purification, which uses solar energy …

Wetting, scaling, and fouling in membrane distillation: state-of-the-art insights on fundamental mechanisms and mitigation strategies

T Horseman, Y Yin, KSS Christie, Z Wang… - Acs Es&T …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Membrane distillation (MD) has been garnering increasing attention in research and
development, since it has been proposed as a promising technology for desalinating …

Semiconductor photothermal materials enabling efficient solar steam generation toward desalination and wastewater treatment

I Ibrahim, DH Seo, AM McDonagh, HK Shon, L Ti**g - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity issues around the world have renewed interest in the use of solar water
evaporation as a means of providing fresh water. Advances in photothermal materials and …