Engineering Biomimetic Nanostructured “Melanosome” Textiles for Advanced Solar-to-Thermal Devices

Ti3C2Tx MXene-Decorated Nanoporous Polyethylene Textile for Passive and Active Personal Precision Heating

(2021) Mengke Shi et al.   ACS Nano

Smart Fibers and Textiles for Personal Health Management

(2021) Huimin Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Using the sun to co-generate electricity and freshwater

(2021) Tianpeng Ding et al.   Joule

Forest-like Laser-Induced Graphene Film with Ultrahigh Solar Energy Utilization Efficiency

(2021) Yunyan Peng et al.   ACS Nano

Breathable and Flexible Dual‐Sided Nonwovens with Adjustable Infrared Optical Performances for Smart Textile

(2021) Qiang Gao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Interfacial Radiation-Absorbing Hydrogel Film for Efficient Thermal Utilization on Solar Evaporator Surfaces

(2021) Sen Meng et al.   NANO LETTERS

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

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

Ultra-black Camouflage in Deep-Sea Fishes

(2020) Alexander L. Davis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2020) Jinxing Chen et al.   ACS Nano

Tuning the Electrical and Solar Thermal Heating Efficiencies of Nanocarbon Aerogels

(2020) Dong Xia et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Multilayer Polypyrrole Nanosheets with Self‐Organized Surface Structures for Flexible and Efficient Solar–Thermal Energy Conversion

(2019) Xu Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

MOF-Based Hierarchical Structures for Solar-Thermal Clean Water Production

(2019) Qinglang Ma et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Micro-/Macroscopically Synergetic Control of Switchable 2D/3D Photothermal Water Purification Enabled by Robust, Portable, and Cost-Effective Cellulose Papers

(2019) Feng Ni et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Photothermal Clothing for Thermally Preserving Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil

(2019) Shanzhi Lyu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

(2019) Weigu Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

Biomimetic MXene Textures with Enhanced Light‐to‐Heat Conversion for Solar Steam Generation and Wearable Thermal Management

(2019) Kerui Li et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

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

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

Highly efficient solar vapour generation via hierarchically nanostructured gels

(2018) Fei Zhao et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Carbon-Based Photothermal Actuators

(2018) Bing Han et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A bionic approach for heat generation and latent heat storage inspired by the polar bear

(2018) Anastasia August et al.   ENERGY

Tailoring Graphene Oxide-Based Aerogels for Efficient Solar Steam Generation under One Sun

(2016) Xiaozhen Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Washable and antibacterial superhydrophbic fabric

(2016) Junfei Ou et al.   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE

Research opportunities to advance solar energy utilization

(2016) N. S. Lewis   SCIENCE

Self-assembly of highly efficient, broadband plasmonic absorbers for solar steam generation

(2016) L. Zhou et al.   Science Advances

Polypyrrole/Silver Coaxial Nanowire Aero-Sponges for Temperature-Independent Stress Sensing and Stress-Triggered Joule Heating

(2015) Weina He et al.   ACS Nano

Polymer Composites for Thermoelectric Applications

(2014) Brendan T. McGrail et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Candle Soot as a Template for a Transparent Robust Superamphiphobic Coating

(2011) X. Deng et al.   SCIENCE