Self‐Repairing and Damage‐Tolerant Hydrogels for Efficient Solar‐Powered Water Purification and Desalination

Injectable Self‐Healing Natural Biopolymer‐Based Hydrogel Adhesive with Thermoresponsive Reversible Adhesion for Minimally Invasive Surgery

(2021) Lei Zhou et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Dynamic Covalent Polymer Networks: A Molecular Platform for Designing Functions beyond Chemical Recycling and Self-Healing

(2021) Ning Zheng et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

A Nature-Inspired Monolithic Integrated Cellulose Aerogel-Based Evaporator for Efficient Solar Desalination

(2021) Kuankuan Liu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Tailoring of a Piezo‐Photo‐Thermal Solar Evaporator for Simultaneous Steam and Power Generation

(2021) Cong‐Han Huang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Designing a next generation solar crystallizer for real seawater brine treatment with zero liquid discharge

(2021) Chenlin Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

All‐Cold Evaporation under One Sun with Zero Energy Loss by Using a Heatsink Inspired Solar Evaporator

(2021) Xuan Wu et al.   Advanced Science

Confinement Capillarity of Thin Coating for Boosting Solar‐Driven Water Evaporation

(2021) Zhenxing Wang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Bioinspired Elastic Hydrogel for Solar‐Driven Water Purification

(2021) Xiaohui Xu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Sustainable implementation of innovative technologies for water purification

(2021) Bart Van der Bruggen   Nature Reviews Chemistry

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

(2020) Youhong Guo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Boosting solar steam generation by structure enhanced energy management

(2020) Yida Wang et al.   Science Bulletin

Modular Deformable Steam Electricity Cogeneration System with Photothermal, Water, and Electrochemical Tunable Multilayers

(2020) Fan Lu Meng et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Biradical‐Featured Stable Organic‐Small‐Molecule Photothermal Materials for Highly Efficient Solar‐Driven Water Evaporation

(2020) Guanyu Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Reverse Thinking of Aggregation‐Induced Emission Principle: Amplifying Molecular Motions to Boost Photothermal Efficiency of Nanofibers

(2020) Haoxuan Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Hydrogels and Hydrogel-Derived Materials for Energy and Water Sustainability

(2020) Youhong Guo et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Integrated photothermal aerogels with ultrahigh-performance solar steam generation

(2020) Yufei Gu et al.   Nano Energy

Multi-interface engineering of solar evaporation devices via scalable, synchronous thermal shrinkage and foaming

(2020) Kerui Li et al.   Nano Energy

Engineering controllable water transport of biosafety cuttlefish juice solar absorber toward remarkably enhanced solar-driven gas-liquid interfacial evaporation

(2020) Zhengtong Li et al.   Nano Energy

Self-healing polymers

(2020) Siyang Wang et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Gas Foaming Guided Fabrication of 3D Porous Plasmonic Nanoplatform with Broadband Absorption, Tunable Shape, Excellent Stability, and High Photothermal Efficiency for Solar Water Purification

(2020) Hui Wang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Robust, 3D-Printed Hydratable Plastics for Effective Solar Desalination

(2020) J. Justin Koh et al.   Nano Energy

Janus Evaporators with Self-Recovering Hydrophobicity for Salt-Rejecting Interfacial Solar Desalination

(2020) Jinxing Chen et al.   ACS Nano

Solar‐Driven Interfacial Evaporation and Self‐Powered Water Wave Detection Based on an All‐Cellulose Monolithic Design

(2020) Na Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Marine biomass-derived composite aerogels for efficient and durable solar-driven interfacial evaporation and desalination

(2020) Lin Yang et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Reversing heat conduction loss: Extracting energy from bulk water to enhance solar steam generation

(2020) Yida Wang et al.   Nano Energy

Integrated multifunctional device based on Bi2S3/Pd: Localized heat channeling for efficient photothermic vaporization and real-time health monitoring

(2020) Xuemin Geng et al.   Nano Energy

Tailoring Nanoscale Surface Topography of Hydrogel for Efficient Solar Vapor Generation

(2019) Youhong Guo et al.   NANO LETTERS

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

(2019) Xingyi Zhou et al.   Science Advances

Development and Evolution of the System Structure for Highly Efficient Solar Steam Generation from Zero to Three Dimensions

(2019) Jianhua Zhou et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A 3D‐Structured Sustainable Solar‐Driven Steam Generator Using Super‐Black Nylon Flocking Materials

(2019) Ce Tu et al.   Small

Osmotic Pumping and Salt Rejection by Polyelectrolyte Hydrogel for Continuous Solar Desalination

(2019) Jian Zeng et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Sustainable Biochar-Based Solar Absorbers for High-Performance Solar-Driven Steam Generation and Water Purification

(2019) Lin Yang et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Collective behaviors mediated multifunctional black sand aggregate towards environmentally adaptive solar-to-thermal purified water harvesting

(2019) Feng Ni et al.   Nano Energy

Exploring interface confined water flow and evaporation enables solar-thermal-electro integration towards clean water and electricity harvest via asymmetric functionalization strategy

(2019) Peng Xiao et al.   Nano Energy

A 3D Hemispheric Steam Generator Based on An Organic–Inorganic Composite Light Absorber for Efficient Solar Evaporation and Desalination

(2019) Guoliang Chen et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

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

Highly efficient solar vapour generation via hierarchically nanostructured gels

(2018) Fei Zhao et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Cold Vapor Generation beyond the Input Solar Energy Limit

(2018) Haomin Song et al.   Advanced Science

High-strength hydrogels: Microstructure design, characterization and applications

(2018) Jiachuan Hua et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Superwetting Monolithic Hollow-Carbon-Nanotubes Aerogels with Hierarchically Nanoporous Structure for Efficient Solar Steam Generation

(2018) Peng Mu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation

(2018) Peng Tao et al.   Nature Energy

One-Pot Assembly of Microfibrillated Cellulose Reinforced PVA–Borax Hydrogels with Self-Healing and pH-Responsive Properties

(2016) Beili Lu et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Materials for next-generation desalination and water purification membranes

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

Four billion people facing severe water scarcity

(2016) M. M. Mekonnen et al.   Science Advances

The world’s road to water scarcity: shortage and stress in the 20th century and pathways towards sustainability

(2016) M. Kummu et al.   Scientific Reports

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

Bound states of water in poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogel prepared by repeated freezing and melting method

(2007) Takahiko Nakaoki et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE