Long‐term stability challenges and opportunities in acidic oxygen evolution electrocatalysis

Q Wang, Y Cheng, HB Tao, Y Liu, X Ma… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) has been regarded as a
promising technology for renewable hydrogen production. However, acidic oxygen evolution …

[PDF][PDF] Bio-inspired water-driven electricity generators: From fundamental mechanisms to practical applications

K Wang, W Xu, W Zhang, X Wang, X Yang… - Nano Res …, 2023 - ira.lib.polyu.edu.hk
Harvesting water energy in various forms of water motion, such as evaporation, raindrops,
river flows, ocean waves, and other, is promising to relieve the global energy crisis and …

Tailoring interfaces for atmospheric water harvesting: fundamentals and applications

S Gao, Y Wang, C Zhang, M Jiang, S Wang, Z Wang - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
Water is the cradle of life, but the scarcity of freshwater imposed by the ever-increasing
population and pollution threatens human survival. Harvesting fresh water from the …

Bio‐inspired Copper Kirigami Motifs Leading to a 2D–3D Switchable Structure for Programmable Fog Harvesting and Water Retention

Z Yu, J Zhang, S Li, Z Zhou, Z Qin, H Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bio‐inspired fog harvesting devices (FHDs) have been exploited to address water
shortages. Despite the advances achieved, efficient and continuous fog harvesting is still …

Electrification of water: From basics to applications

Y **, C Wu, P Sun, M Wang, M Cui, C Zhang, Z Wang - Droplet, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As the most common but indispensable matter to humankind, water usually stays in a
macroscopically electric neutral state. Due to its inherent molecular polarity, however, water …

Smart surfaces with reversibly switchable wettability: concepts, synthesis and applications

H Liu, L Zhang, J Huang, J Mao, Z Chen, Q Mao… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a growing hot research topic, manufacturing smart switchable surfaces has attracted
much attention in the past a few years. The state-of-the-art study on reversibly switchable …

High-efficient fog harvest from a synergistic effect of coupling hierarchical structures

K Zhang, H Chen, T Ran, L Zhang… - … applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fog harvesting is an important method to solve the water shortage in arid and semi-arid
areas by collecting water from air. Improving fog harvesting efficiency is still a big challenge …

Droplet motion on superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic wedge-shaped patterned surfaces with different micro-morphologies

J Liu, D Yan, Y Zhou, Y Chen, X Liu, D Zhao… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
Superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic wedge-shaped patterned surface (SSWPS) has
promising application prospects in water transportation, fog harvesting, etc., and has …

[HTML][HTML] Microchannel-elevated micromembrane for sustainable phase-separation condensation

L Shan, Z Guo, D Monga, D Boylan, X Dai - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
A sustainable high heat transfer coefficient is critical for water and energy systems that utilize
steam condensation. Current techniques cannot achieve a high heat transfer performance at …

Ultrafast self-healing superhydrophobic surface for underwater drag reduction

P Sun, X Feng, G Tian, X Zhang, J Chu - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
The self-healing superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted great interest owing to restoring
superhydrophobicity without preparation crafts. However, the self-healing superhydrophobic …