Recent advances and challenges for solar-driven water evaporation system toward applications

VD Dao, NH Vu, S Yun - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Solar-driven water evaporation system has attracted enormous attention in recent years.
This is due to the widespread use of natural sources such as solar energy and water …

Carbon‐based sunlight absorbers in solar‐driven steam generation devices

VD Dao, HS Choi - Global Challenges, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon‐based sunlight absorbers in solar‐driven steam generation have recently attracted
much attention due to the possibility of huge applications of low‐cost steam for medical …

Photothermal applications based on graphene and its derivatives: A state-of-the-art review

Z Li, H Lei, A Kan, H **e, W Yu - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Graphene is one of the most attractive materials due to its unique features, including high
aspect ratio, excellent mechanical, thermal, and optical features. Especially, graphene and …

The emergence of solar thermal utilization: solar-driven steam generation

Z Deng, J Zhou, L Miao, C Liu, Y Peng, L Sun… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar-driven steam generation not only has a long history of application demand, but is also
a new research topic due to the progress in nano-material science. Conventional solar …

Advances and challenges of broadband solar absorbers for efficient solar steam generation

Y Liu, J Zhao, S Zhang, D Li, X Zhang… - Environmental Science …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
With the emergence of a large number of solar absorbers due to the tremendous
development of material science, an ancient technology, solar-driven evaporation offers a …

State‐of‐the‐art advances, development, and challenges of metal oxide semiconductor nanomaterials for photothermal solar steam generation

KW Tan, CM Yap, Z Zheng, CY Haw… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar steam generation has drawn high levels of attention from the research community in
recent years due to its wide application and abundantly available energy source—sunlight …

Advances in photothermal nanomaterials for biomedical, environmental and energy applications

SY Tee, E Ye, CP Teng, Y Tanaka, KY Tang, KY Win… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Materials that exhibit photothermal effect have attracted enormous research interests due to
their ability to strongly absorb light and effectively transform it into heat for a wide range of …

Recent Advances and Challenges of Metal‐Based Materials for Solar Steam Generation

B Yu, Y Zhang, Y Wang, Z Zhang - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global energy and environmental problems are becoming increasingly prominent, and the
shortage of freshwater resources has been plaguing many countries and regions in the …

Low cost, robust, environmentally friendly geopolymer–mesoporous carbon composites for efficient solar powered steam generation

F Liu, B Zhao, W Wu, H Yang, Y Ning… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
High‐efficiency, environment friendly, renewable energy‐based methods of desalination
represent attractive and potentially very powerful solutions to the long‐standing problem of …

Origami system for efficient solar driven distillation in emergency water supply

Y Xu, J Ma, D Liu, H Xu, F Cui, W Wang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
Facing lack of infrastructure and no access of electricity, insuring drinking water for people
during an emergency in remote area is becoming a great challenge. Here, we develop an …