Enhanced Contactless Salt-Collecting Solar Desalination

Highly efficient and salt rejecting solar evaporation via a wick-free confined water layer

(2022) Lenan Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

An Asymmetric Hygroscopic Structure for Moisture‐Driven Hygro‐Ionic Electricity Generation and Storage

(2022) Yaoxin Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Best practices for solar water production technologies

(2022) Yaoxin Zhang et al.   Nature Sustainability

High-flux flowing interfacial water evaporation under multiple heating sources enabled by a biohybrid hydrogel

(2022) Zhen Yu et al.   Nano Energy

Sustainable Solar Evaporation while Salt Accumulation

(2021) Yue Bian et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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

Hierarchically Designed Salt‐Resistant Solar Evaporator Based on Donnan Effect for Stable and High‐Performance Brine Treatment

(2021) Wei Zhao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A scalable fish-school inspired self-assembled particles system for solar-powered water-solute separation

(2021) Ning Xu et al.   National Science Review

A high-performing single-stage invert-structured solar water purifier through enhanced absorption and condensation

(2021) Fengyue Wang et al.   Joule

Dual‐Zone Photothermal Evaporator for Antisalt Accumulation and Highly Efficient Solar Steam Generation

(2021) Xuan Wu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

3D Printing a Biomimetic Bridge‐Arch Solar Evaporator for Eliminating Salt Accumulation with Desalination and Agricultural Applications

(2021) Miaomiao Zou et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Conversion and storage of solar energy for cooling

(2021) Wenbin Wang et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

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

(2020) Lei Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Reduced Graphene Oxide–Based Spectrally Selective Absorber with an Extremely Low Thermal Emittance and High Solar Absorptance

(2020) Qihua Liao et al.   Advanced Science

Structured graphene metamaterial selective absorbers for high efficiency and omnidirectional solar thermal energy conversion

(2020) Keng-Te Lin et al.   Nature Communications

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

Cellular Structured CNTs@SiO 2 Nanofibrous Aerogels with Vertically Aligned Vessels for Salt‐Resistant Solar Desalination

(2020) Xiangyang Dong et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Latest development in salt removal from solar-driven interfacial saline water evaporators: Advanced strategies and challenges

(2020) Haoran Li et al.   WATER RESEARCH

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

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

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

Sustainable Solar Evaporation from Solute Surface via Energy Downconversion

(2020) Yue Bian et al.   GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Digestion of Ambient Humidity for Energy Generation

(2020) Yaoxin Zhang et al.   Joule

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

(2019) Yudi Kuang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A water lily–inspired hierarchical design for stable and efficient solar evaporation of high-salinity brine

(2019) Ning Xu et al.   Science Advances

Pathways and challenges for efficient solar-thermal desalination

(2019) Zhangxin Wang et al.   Science Advances

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

(2019) Jian Zeng et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

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

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

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

(2018) Weichao Xu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Cold Vapor Generation beyond the Input Solar Energy Limit

(2018) Haomin Song et al.   Advanced Science

Solar Evaporator with Controlled Salt Precipitation for Zero Liquid Discharge Desalination

(2018) Yusuf Shi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

Carbonized Bamboos as Excellent 3D Solar Vapor‐Generation Devices

(2018) Yue Bian et al.   Advanced Materials Technologies

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

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

(2016) George Ni et al.   Nature Energy

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

(2015) Lianbin Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2011) M. Elimelech et al.   SCIENCE