Waste are in the limelight: cost-effective waste materials for sustainable solar desalination

T Arunkumar, HM Wilson, SJ Lee - Clean Technologies and …, 2023 - Springer
Solar-based desalination is one of the sustainable methods of obtaining clean water from
contaminated water. Recent advances in the production of highly efficient photothermal …

Recent developments in natural materials for interfacial solar steam generation: A comprehensive review

W Zhang, M Fan, E Huang, J Sun, Q Zuo… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, interfacial solar steam generation (ISSG) has attracted considerable interest
as a means of producing fresh water from various water sources. And photothermal …

Peanut shell-derived photothermal absorber for solar desalination

T Arunkumar, HM Wilson, HW Lim, AZ Hameed, SJ Lee - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of efficient photothermal materials for solar steam generation (SSG) is
important achieving high evaporation rates and efficiencies. Among various materials …

A self-floating and windproof Janus biomass composite hydrogel with magnetic controllability and salt rejection for polluted seawater desalination

D Zheng, L Shi, M Zhang, W Huang, Z Li, S Long… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
To alleviate the global freshwater crisis, a self-floating magnetic Janus biomass composite
hydrogel has been fabricated through a rational asymmetric bilayer structure design, which …

A facile MXene/PPy modified asymmetry sponge solar absorber enabling efficient and high salt resistance evaporation

X Fan, S Zhang, H Wang, L Liu, L Wang, N Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar-driven interfacial water evaporation is emerging as a promising sustainable strategy to
collect fresh water and attracts extensive attention in academia. However, solar evaporator …

Highly Elastic, Robust, and Efficient Hydrogel Solar Absorber against Harsh Environmental Impacts

X Ji, X Fan, X Liu, J Gu, H Lu, Z Luan, J Liang - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Solar distillation is a promising approach for addressing water scarcity, but relentless
stress/strain perturbations induced by wind and waves would inevitably cause structural …

Sandy sediment-based solar evaporator for large-scale and scalable freshwater production under various water environments

M Fan, W Zhang, E Huang, J Liu, S Liu, S Chai, L Gong - Solar Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Interface solar steam generation (ISSG) technology has immense potential for addressing
the global freshwater crisis. However, its large-scale application faces challenges such as …

Biomimetic hydrophilic CuO-nanocluster/nanofibrous thin-film skeleton/hydrophilic CuO-nanocluster architecture membrane for efficient and stable solar water …

J Zhao, Z Liu, SC Low, Z Xu, SH Tan - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
Develo** exquisitely structured light-absorbing materials could be a feasible approach to
enhance solar evaporation performance. Herein, a CuO-nanocluster/PVDF-HFP …

Comprehensive review of advanced desalination technologies for solar-powered all-day, all-weather freshwater harvesting systems

T Arunkumar, D Parbat, SJ Lee - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar-powered freshwater harvesting is one of the accelerating trends today. Thanks to
those who have developed efficient light-absorbing materials, latent heat energy storage …

Interface engineering of amorphous boron for high-efficiency interfacial solar steam generation

B Yang, Y Feng, W Wang, M Zhang, X Kong… - New Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar steam generation that can directly harness solar energy to produce clean water from
undrinkable water resources offers great application prospects in water purification systems …