Membranes in solar‐driven evaporation: design principles and applications

HC Yang, F Lu, HN Li, C Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven evaporation process brings exciting opportunities to recover clean water and
resources in a sustainable way from diverse sources like seawater and wastewater …

Self-surface heating membrane distillation for sustainable production of freshwater: A state of the art overview

TM Subrahmanya, HFM Austria, YY Chen… - Progress in Materials …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Shortage of freshwater is a global challenge related to population growth, changes in
climate conditions and industrial and agricultural needs. Thus, sustainable freshwater …

Emerging heat-localized solar distillation systems: Solar interfacial distillation VS photothermal membrane distillation

S Tian, X Li, J Ren, Z Zhou, F Wang, K Shi, J Xu, T Gu… - Desalination, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Heat-localized solar distillation (HLSD) is an emerging environmentally-friendly high-
efficiency distillation technology for clean water production. Solar interfacial distillation (SID) …

Bi-MOF-derived plasmonic Bi-C on carbon felt for efficient solar evaporation, water purification and salt-resistant desalination

J Jiang, Y Xu, C Tang, X Wang, W Wei, L Ai - Desalination, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Plasmonic nanostructures have been demonstrated to be an important class of photothermal
absorbers, facilitating solar vapor generation by plasmonic heating. However, the high cost …

2024 roadmap on membrane desalination technology at the water-energy nexus

A Politano, RA Al-Juboori, S Alnajdi… - Journal of Physics …, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Water and energy are two strategic drivers of sustainable development, intimately interlaced
and vital for a secure future of humanity. Given that water resources are limited, whereas …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmonic nanofillers-enabled solar membrane crystallization for mineral recovery

S Santoro, M Aquino, C Rizza, A Cupolillo… - Desalination, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Recently, the excitation of localized surface plasmon resonances in metal nanoparticles
(NPs) has been exploited in membrane science (especially, membrane distillation) to …

Membrane fabrication and configuration design development of photothermal membrane distillation (PMD)

GR Xu, M Wang, K Xu, HL Zhao, Q Liu - Desalination, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Membrane distillation provides a promising alternative to supply safe and clean water
because of its superiorities over conventional membrane and distillation-based methods …

[HTML][HTML] Green photocatalytic mixed matrix membranes for simultaneous arsenic photo-oxidation and water recovery via membrane distillation

S Santoro, J Occhiuzzi, M Aquino, A Politano… - Separation and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This work proposes an innovative integration of Membrane Distillation (MD) and photo-
oxidation for a continuous recovery of water from arsenic (As) contaminated solutions …

An experimental study on recovering and concentrating ammonia by sweep gas membrane distillation

Z Li, P Zhang, K Guan, RR Gonzales, T Ishigami… - Process Safety and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Ammonia is a toxic and hazardous substance, as well as a valuable chemical. The gaseous
ammonia are soluble in water, rendering some industrial wastewater contains high …

Environmentally Friendly Photothermal Membranes for Halite Recovery from Reverse Osmosis Brine via Solar-Driven Membrane Crystallization

M Aquino, S Santoro, A Politano, G D'Andrea… - Membranes, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Modern society and industrial development rely heavily on the availability of freshwater and
minerals. Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) has been widely adopted for freshwater …