Going beyond efficiency for solar evaporation

N Xu, J Li, C Finnerty, Y Song, L Zhou, B Zhu, P Wang… - Nature Water, 2023‏ - nature.com
Interfacial solar evaporation, which captures solar energy and localizes the generated heat
for evaporating water molecules, is regarded as an important emerging strategy for solar …

Salt mitigation strategies of solar‐driven interfacial desalination

K Xu, C Wang, Z Li, S Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven interfacial desalination (SDID), which is based on localized heating and
interfacial evaporation, provides an opportunity for develo** environmentally friendly and …

A high‐performance self‐regenerating solar evaporator for continuous water desalination

Y Kuang, C Chen, S He, EM Hitz, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Emerging solar desalination by interfacial evaporation shows great potential in response to
global water scarcity because of its high solar‐to‐vapor efficiency, low environmental …

Photothermal fabrics for solar-driven seawater desalination

J Hu, Y Sun, Z Liu, B Zhu, L Zhang, N Xu, M Zhu… - Progress in Materials …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Solar-driven seawater desalination has received massive attention as it holds great promise
to solve the worldwide freshwater and energy issues. The key of this technology relies on …

Recent progress in solar photothermal steam technology for water purification and energy utilization

C Chen, M Wang, X Chen, X Chen, Q Fu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Solar photothermal steam technology (SPST) has attracted increasing attention in recent
decades because of great potential to produce fresh water from various water sources, such …

The revival of thermal utilization from the Sun: interfacial solar vapor generation

L Zhou, X Li, GW Ni, S Zhu, J Zhu - National Science Review, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Since solar energy is the ultimate energy resource and a significant amount of global energy
utilization goes through heat, there have been persistent efforts for centuries to develop …

Recent progress of solar-driven interfacial evaporation based on organic semiconductor materials

JL Wu, SJ Han, L Xu, ZY Wang, L Labiadh… - Separation and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
As an attracting technology to alleviate the scarcity of fresh water resources, solar-driven
interfacial evaporation based on localization of solar-thermal energy conversion at the …

The rise of 2D photothermal materials beyond graphene for clean water production

Z **e, Y Duo, Z Lin, T Fan, C **ng, L Yu… - Advanced …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Water shortage is one of the most concerning global challenges in the 21st century. Solar‐
inspired vaporization employing photothermal nanomaterials is considered to be a feasible …

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 …

Advances in solar evaporator materials for freshwater generation

S Cao, Q Jiang, X Wu, D Ghim, HG Derami… - Journal of Materials …, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
To alleviate the scarcity of clean water, solar steam generation, which utilizes the green and
abundant resources of Earth, has attracted considerable attention and been recognized as a …