Solar-driven interfacial water evaporation for wastewater purification: Recent advances and challenges

L Cui, P Wang, H Che, J Chen, B Liu, Y Ao - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Solar-driven interfacial water evaporation has received considerable attention as a potential
solution for wastewater treatment applications. Despite previous studies confirming …

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 …

Coupling solar-driven photothermal effect into photocatalysis for sustainable water treatment

Y Lu, H Zhang, D Fan, Z Chen, X Yang - Journal of hazardous materials, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Effectively harnessing renewable and inexhaustible solar radiation for energy conversion
has attracted significant research interest in the past decade. Solar thermal conversion, as a …

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation for water treatment: advanced research progress and challenges

J Li, Y **g, G **ng, M Liu, Y Cui, H Sun… - Journal of Materials …, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) using the widely distributed solar energy as the
driving force and simple and portable photothermal evaporation structures as the core …

Graphene and rice-straw-fiber-based 3D photothermal aerogels for highly efficient solar evaporation

DP Storer, JL Phelps, X Wu, G Owens… - … applied materials & …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Solar-steam generation is one of the most promising technologies to mitigate the issue of
clean water shortage using sustainable solar energy. Photothermal aerogels, especially the …

Biological and bioinspired thermal energy regulation and utilization

S An, B Shi, M Jiang, B Fu, C Song, P Tao… - Chemical …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
The regulation and utilization of thermal energy is increasingly important in modern society
due to the growing demand for heating and cooling in applications ranging from buildings, to …

Heat-localized solar evaporation: Transport processes and applications

C Du, X Zhao, X Qian, C Huang, R Yang - Nano Energy, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Solar evaporation by heat localization has drawn intensive research interest recent years,
because this potential desalination technology is free of fossil fuel consumption and carbon …

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation

P Tao, G Ni, C Song, W Shang, J Wu, J Zhu, G Chen… - Nature energy, 2018‏ - nature.com
As a ubiquitous solar-thermal energy conversion process, solar-driven evaporation has
attracted tremendous research attention owing to its high conversion efficiency of solar …

Recent advances and challenges of emerging solar-driven steam and the contribution of photocatalytic effect

R Djellabi, L Noureen, VD Dao, D Meroni… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In recent years, solar-driven steam materials and systems for water desalination and
decontamination have received increasing attention from the scientific community …

Development and evolution of the system structure for highly efficient solar steam generation from zero to three dimensions

J Zhou, Y Gu, P Liu, P Wang, L Miao… - Advanced Functional …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Direct solar steam generation (DSSG) offers a promising, sustainable, and environmentally
friendly solution to the energy and water crisis. In the past decades, DSSG has gained …