A flexible and salt-rejecting electrospun film-based solar evaporator for economic, stable and efficient solar desalination and wastewater treatment

Biomass‐Derived Hybrid Hydrogel Evaporators for Cost‐Effective Solar Water Purification

(2020) Youhong Guo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Graphene and Rice-Straw-Fiber-Based 3D Photothermal Aerogels for Highly Efficient Solar Evaporation

(2020) Daniel Peter Storer et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Low-Tortuosity Water Microchannels Boosting Energy Utilization for High Water Flux Solar Distillation

(2020) Ying Xu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Materials for solar-powered water evaporation

(2020) Fei Zhao et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Volatile-Organic-Compound-Intercepting Solar Distillation Enabled by a Photothermal/Photocatalytic Nanofibrous Membrane with Dual-Scale Pores

(2020) Chengjie Song et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Super Moisture-Absorbent Gels for All-Weather Atmospheric Water Harvesting

(2019) Fei Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hierarchical Porous SWCNT Stringed Carbon Polyhedrons and PSS Threaded MOF Bilayer Membrane for Efficient Solar Vapor Generation

(2019) Xu Ma et al.   Small

A High‐Performance Self‐Regenerating Solar Evaporator for Continuous Water Desalination

(2019) Yudi Kuang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Synergistic Energy Nanoconfinement and Water Activation in Hydrogels for Efficient Solar Water Desalination

(2019) Youhong Guo et al.   ACS Nano

Photothermal Conversion: Shape Conformal and Thermal Insulative Organic Solar Absorber Sponge for Photothermal Water Evaporation and Thermoelectric Power Generation (Adv. Energy Mater. 22/2019)

(2019) Liangliang Zhu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Architecting highly hydratable polymer networks to tune the water state for solar water purification

(2019) Xingyi Zhou et al.   Science Advances

Easily scaled-up photo-thermal membrane with structure-dependent auto-cleaning feature for high-efficient solar desalination

(2019) Ying Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE

A photothermal reservoir for highly efficient solar steam generation without bulk water

(2019) Xuan Wu et al.   Science Bulletin

Hydrogels as an Emerging Material Platform for Solar Water Purification

(2019) Xingyi Zhou et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Beyond lotus: Plasma nanostructuring enables efficient energy and water conversion and use

(2019) Yikuan Tian et al.   Nano Energy

High Rate Production of Clean Water Based on the Combined Photo-Electro-Thermal Effect of Graphene Architecture

(2018) Linfan Cui et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A hydrogel-based antifouling solar evaporator for highly efficient water desalination

(2018) Xingyi Zhou et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Solar Absorber Material and System Designs for Photothermal Water Vaporization towards Clean Water and Energy Production

(2018) Minmin Gao et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

A salt-rejecting floating solar still for low-cost desalination

(2018) George Ni et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Highly efficient solar vapour generation via hierarchically nanostructured gels

(2018) Fei Zhao et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Self-Contained Monolithic Carbon Sponges for Solar-Driven Interfacial Water Evaporation Distillation and Electricity Generation

(2018) Liangliang Zhu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Flexible and Salt Resistant Janus Absorbers by Electrospinning for Stable and Efficient Solar Desalination

(2018) Weichao Xu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Full dimensional water evaporation on macroporous vertically-aligned graphene pillar array under sun

(2018) Liangti Qu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Emerging investigator series: the rise of nano-enabled photothermal materials for water evaporation and clean water production by sunlight

(2018) Peng Wang   Environmental Science-Nano

Wrinkle-induced high sorption makes few-layered black phosphorus a superior adsorbent for ionic organic compounds

(2018) Qing Zhao et al.   Environmental Science-Nano

Hybrid Photothermal Pyroelectric and Thermogalvanic Generator for Multisituation Low Grade Heat Harvesting

(2018) Tianpeng Ding et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

A simple way to achieve bioinspired hybrid wettability surface with micro/nanopatterns for efficient fog collection

(2017) Kai Yin et al.   Nanoscale

Nanophotonics-enabled solar membrane distillation for off-grid water purification

(2017) Pratiksha D. Dongare et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight

(2017) Hyunho Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Plasmonic Wood for High-Efficiency Solar Steam Generation

(2017) Mingwei Zhu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Graphene oxide-based evaporator with one-dimensional water transport enabling high-efficiency solar desalination

(2017) Yiju Li et al.   Nano Energy

Photothermal Membrane Distillation for Seawater Desalination

(2016) Antonio Politano et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Raman Fingerprints of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons

(2016) Ivan A. Verzhbitskiy et al.   NANO LETTERS

Multilayer Nanoporous Graphene Membranes for Water Desalination

(2016) David Cohen-Tanugi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Thermal conductivity of graphene with defects induced by electron beam irradiation

(2016) Hoda Malekpour et al.   Nanoscale

3D self-assembly of aluminium nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced solar desalination

(2016) Lin Zhou et al.   Nature Photonics

Graphene oxide-based efficient and scalable solar desalination under one sun with a confined 2D water path

(2016) Xiuqiang Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Materials for next-generation desalination and water purification membranes

(2016) Jay R. Werber et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Hydrophobic Light-to-Heat Conversion Membranes with Self-Healing Ability for Interfacial Solar Heating

(2015) Lianbin Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Review of the Properties and Applications of Poly (Methyl Methacrylate) (PMMA)

(2015) Umar Ali et al.   Polymer Reviews

Adsorptive removal of methylene blue by rhamnolipid-functionalized graphene oxide from wastewater

(2014) Zhibin Wu et al.   WATER RESEARCH

A review on membrane fabrication: Structure, properties and performance relationship

(2013) Boor Singh Lalia et al.   DESALINATION

Electrospun magnetic poly(l-lactide) (PLLA) nanofibers by incorporating PLLA-stabilized Fe3O4 nanoparticles

(2013) Dingying Shan et al.   Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications

Transparent and UV-shielding ZnO@PMMA nanocomposite films

(2013) Yewei Zhang et al.   OPTICAL MATERIALS

Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change

(2013) Ingjerd Haddeland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Graphene Nanomesh Promises Extremely Efficient In Vivo Photothermal Therapy

(2013) Omid Akhavan et al.   Small

Preparation and characterization of highly hydrophobic poly(vinylidene fluoride) – Clay nanocomposite nanofiber membranes (PVDF–clay NNMs) for desalination using direct contact membrane distillation

(2012) J.A. Prince et al.   JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE

Fabrication and characterization of polyvinylidenefluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP) electrospun membranes for direct contact membrane distillation

(2012) Boor Singh Lalia et al.   JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE

The Future of Seawater Desalination: Energy, Technology, and the Environment

(2011) M. Elimelech et al.   SCIENCE

The ionic conductivity and mechanical property of electrospun P(VdF-HFP)/PMMA membranes for lithium ion batteries

(2008) Yanhuai Ding et al.   JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE

Use of electrospinning technique for biomedical applications

(2008) Seema Agarwal et al.   POLYMER

Thermal and mechanical properties of electrospun PMMA, PVC, Nylon 6, and Nylon 6,6

(2007) Clarisa Carrizales et al.   POLYMERS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES