Interfacial Solar Steam/Vapor Generation for Heating and Cooling

Polyaniline‐Coated MOFs Nanorod Arrays for Efficient Evaporation‐Driven Electricity Generation and Solar Steam Desalination

(2021) Zhuoyi Li et al.   Advanced Science

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

(2021) Xuan Wu et al.   Advanced Science

Salt-resistant carbon dots modified solar steam system enhanced by chemical advection

(2021) Muhammad Sultan Irshad et al.   CARBON

Photovoltaic-multistage desalination of hypersaline waters for simultaneous electricity, water and salt harvesting via automatic rinsing

(2021) Liping Yang et al.   Nano Energy

Distributed solar desalination by membrane distillation: current status and future perspectives

(2021) Qiuming Ma et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Recent advances and challenges for water evaporation-induced electricity toward applications

(2021) Van-Duong Dao et al.   Nano Energy

Mechanistic Investigation of Electrostatic Field‐Enhanced Water Evaporation

(2021) Jipeng Fei et al.   Advanced Science

Design and Utilization of Infrared Light for Interfacial Solar Water Purification

(2021) Xiuqiang Li et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Using the sun to co-generate electricity and freshwater

(2021) Tianpeng Ding et al.   Joule

Integrated solar-driven PV cooling and seawater desalination with zero liquid discharge

(2021) Wenbin Wang et al.   Joule

Promoting Energy Efficiency via a Self‐Adaptive Evaporative Cooling Hydrogel

(2020) Shirui Pu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Highly efficient three-dimensional solar evaporator for high salinity desalination by localized crystallization

(2020) Lei Wu et al.   Nature Communications

The Rise of 2D Photothermal Materials beyond Graphene for Clean Water Production

(2020) Zhongjian Xie et al.   Advanced Science

Solar–Thermal Water Evaporation: A Review

(2020) Yunsong Pang et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Modeling and performance analysis of high-efficiency thermally-localized multistage solar stills

(2020) Lenan Zhang et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

Structure Architecting for Salt-Rejecting Solar Interfacial Desalination to Achieve High-Performance Evaporation With In Situ Energy Generation

(2020) Yaoxin Zhang et al.   Advanced Science

Materials for solar-powered water evaporation

(2020) Fei Zhao et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Colored and paintable bilayer coatings with high solar-infrared reflectance for efficient cooling

(2020) Yijun Chen et al.   Science Advances

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

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

Advanced Nanowood Materials for the Water–Energy Nexus

(2020) Xi Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Solar-driven co-generation of electricity and water by evaporation cooling

(2020) Lu Huang et al.   DESALINATION

Sustainable Wood-Based Hierarchical Solar Steam Generator: A Biomimetic Design with Reduced Vaporization Enthalpy of Water

(2020) Qing-Fang Guan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Manipulating Interfacial Charge-Transfer Absorption of Cocrystal Absorber for Efficient Solar Seawater Desalination and Water Purification

(2020) Shuang Tian et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Paints as a Scalable and Effective Radiative Cooling Technology for Buildings

(2020) Jyotirmoy Mandal et al.   Joule

Photovoltaic panel cooling by atmospheric water sorption–evaporation cycle

(2020) Renyuan Li et al.   Nature Sustainability

Solar-trackable super-wicking black metal panel for photothermal water sanitation

(2020) Subhash C. Singh et al.   Nature Sustainability

Omnidirectional, Broadband Light Absorption in a Hierarchical Nanoturf Membrane for an Advanced Solar‐Vapor Generator

(2020) Jong Uk Kim et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Nanoconfined Water‐Molecule Channels for High‐Yield Solar Vapor Generation under Weaker Sunlight

(2020) Qichen Lu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Guaranteeing Complete Salt Rejection by Channeling Saline Water through Fluidic Photothermal Structure toward Synergistic Zero Energy Clean Water Production and In Situ Energy Generation

(2020) Yaoxin Zhang et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Dual-Stage Atmospheric Water Harvesting Device for Scalable Solar-Driven Water Production

(2020) Alina LaPotin et al.   Joule

Stable Self‐Floating Reduced Graphene Oxide Hydrogel Membrane for High Rate of Solar Vapor Evaporation under 1 sun

(2020) Pengyu Zhuang et al.   GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Nanoenabled Photothermal Materials for Clean Water Production

(2020) Muhammad Sultan Irshad et al.   GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Spectrally Selective Absorbers/Emitters for Solar Steam Generation and Radiative Cooling‐Enabled Atmospheric Water Harvesting

(2020) Yang Li et al.   GLOBAL CHALLENGES

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

(2020) Jinxing Chen et al.   ACS Nano

Integration of daytime radiative cooling and solar heating for year-round energy saving in buildings

(2020) Xiuqiang Li et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2020) Yida Wang et al.   Nano Energy

Passive Sub-Ambient Cooling from a Transparent Evaporation-Insulation Bilayer

(2020) Zhengmao Lu et al.   Joule

A Passive High-Temperature High-Pressure Solar Steam Generator for Medical Sterilization

(2020) Lin Zhao et al.   Joule

Self‐Cleaning Integrative Aerogel for Stable Solar‐Assisted Desalination

(2020) Yufei Gu et al.   GLOBAL CHALLENGES

An experimental exploration of generating electricity from nature-inspired hierarchical evaporator: The role of electrode materials

(2020) Van-Duong Dao   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

(2019) Lin Zhou et al.   National Science Review

Photothermal Membrane Water Treatment for Two Worlds

(2019) Young-Shin Jun et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

High-Efficiency Superheated Steam Generation for Portable Sterilization under Ambient Pressure and Low Solar Flux

(2019) Chao Chang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Portable Low‐Pressure Solar Steaming‐Collection Unisystem with Polypyrrole Origamis

(2019) Weigu Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A radiative cooling structural material

(2019) Tian Li et al.   SCIENCE

Shape Conformal and Thermal Insulative Organic Solar Absorber Sponge for Photothermal Water Evaporation and Thermoelectric Power Generation

(2019) Liangliang Zhu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Simultaneous production of fresh water and electricity via multistage solar photovoltaic membrane distillation

(2019) Wenbin Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Radiative sky cooling: Fundamental principles, materials, and applications

(2019) Dongliang Zhao et al.   Applied Physics Reviews

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

(2019) Xingyi Zhou et al.   Science Advances

Pathways and challenges for efficient solar-thermal desalination

(2019) Zhangxin Wang 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

Thermal Efficiency of Solar Steam Generation Approaching 100 % through Capillary Water Transport

(2019) Hanxue Liang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

All day Limnobium laevigatum inspired nanogenerator self-driven via water evaporation

(2019) Van-Duong Dao et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

A scalable, low-cost and robust photo-thermal fabric with tunable and programmable 2D/3D structures towards environmentally adaptable liquid/solid-medium water extraction

(2019) Peng Xiao et al.   Nano Energy

Food-derived carbonaceous materials for solar desalination and thermo-electric power generation

(2019) Yaoxin Zhang et al.   Nano Energy

Enhanced water yield of solar desalination by thermal concentrated multistage distiller

(2019) Lu Huang et al.   DESALINATION

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

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

(2019) Van-Duong Dao 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

Highly efficient solar vapour generation via hierarchically nanostructured gels

(2018) Fei Zhao et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Solar heating and cooling: Present and future development

(2018) T.S. Ge et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

Solar Absorber Gel: Localized Macro-Nano Heat Channeling for Efficient Plasmonic Au Nanoflowers Photothermic Vaporization and Triboelectric Generation

(2018) Minmin Gao et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

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

(2018) Liangliang Zhu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

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

Cold Vapor Generation beyond the Input Solar Energy Limit

(2018) Haomin Song et al.   Advanced Science

Flexible and portable graphene on carbon cloth as a power generator for electricity generation

(2018) Baofei Hou et al.   CARBON

Hierarchical Porous Carbonized Lotus Seedpods for Highly Efficient Solar Steam Generation

(2018) Jing Fang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Emerging opportunities for nanotechnology to enhance water security

(2018) Pedro J. J. Alvarez et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Mechanically Interlocked 1T/2H Phases of MoS2 Nanosheets for Solar Thermal Water Purification

(2018) Deoukchen Ghim et al.   Nano Energy

Interfacial Solar Steam Generation Enables Fast-Responsive, Energy-Efficient, and Low-Cost Off-Grid Sterilization

(2018) Jinlei Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Microstructured Graphene/Poly(N -isopropylacrylamide) Membrane for Intelligent Solar Water Evaporation

(2018) Panpan Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Space-Confined Seeded Growth of Black Silver Nanostructures for Solar Steam Generation

(2018) Jinxing Chen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Photonic thermal management of coloured objects

(2018) Wei Li et al.   Nature Communications

Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination

(2018) Thomas A. Cooper et al.   Nature Communications

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation

(2018) Peng Tao et al.   Nature Energy

Recent progress in solar-driven interfacial water evaporation: Advanced designs and applications

(2018) Liangliang Zhu et al.   Nano Energy

Solar-driven simultaneous steam production and electricity generation from salinity

(2017) Peihua Yang et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Floating rGO-based black membranes for solar driven sterilization

(2017) Yao Zhang et al.   Nanoscale

Tuning Transpiration by Interfacial Solar Absorber-Leaf Engineering

(2017) Shendong Zhuang et al.   Advanced Science

Efficient Solar-Thermal Energy Harvest Driven by Interfacial Plasmonic Heating-Assisted Evaporation

(2016) Chao Chang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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

Flexible artificially-networked structure for ambient/high pressure solar steam generation

(2016) Seyed Mohammad Sajadi et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Combining Solar Steam Processing and Solar Distillation for Fully Off-Grid Production of Cellulosic Bioethanol

(2016) Oara Neumann et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Steam generation under one sun enabled by a floating structure with thermal concentration

(2016) George Ni et al.   Nature Energy

Passive radiative cooling below ambient air temperature under direct sunlight

(2014) Aaswath P. Raman et al.   NATURE

Compact solar autoclave based on steam generation using broadband light-harvesting nanoparticles

(2013) O. Neumann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future

(2012) Steven Chu et al.   NATURE