Solar absorber material and system designs for photothermal water vaporization towards clean water and energy production

Energy & Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 12(3), P. 841 - 864

Published: July 13, 2018

This comprehensive review provides a guide to design photothermal materials and systems for solar-driven water evaporation addressing the water–energy nexus.

Language: Английский

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Challenges and Opportunities for Solar Evaporation

Joule, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 3(3), P. 683 - 718

Published: Jan. 30, 2019

Language: Английский

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Structure–property–function relationships of natural and engineered wood

Nature Reviews Materials, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 5(9), P. 642 - 666

Published: May 4, 2020

Language: Английский

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

Nano Energy, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 57, P. 507 - 518

Published: Dec. 16, 2018

Language: Английский

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Enhancement of Interfacial Solar Vapor Generation by Environmental Energy

Joule, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 2(7), P. 1331 - 1338

Published: April 26, 2018

Language: Английский

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A 3D Photothermal Structure toward Improved Energy Efficiency in Solar Steam Generation

Joule, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 2(6), P. 1171 - 1186

Published: April 18, 2018

Language: Английский

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Spatially isolating salt crystallisation from water evaporation for continuous solar steam generation and salt harvesting

Energy & Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 12(6), P. 1840 - 1847

Published: Jan. 1, 2019

Efficient solar steam generation and concurrent salt harvesting from saline water were achieved with both continuous operation long-term stability.

Language: Английский

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Pathways and challenges for efficient solar-thermal desalination

Science Advances, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 5(7)

Published: July 5, 2019

Solar-thermal desalination (STD) is a potentially low-cost, sustainable approach for providing high-quality fresh water in the absence of and energy infrastructures. Despite recent efforts to advance STD by improving heat-absorbing materials system designs, best strategies maximizing performance remain uncertain. To address this problem, we identify three major steps distillation-based STD: (i) light-to-heat conversion, (ii) thermal vapor generation, (iii) conversion via condensation. Using specific productivity as quantitative metric efficiency, show that efficient recovery latent heat condensation critical enhancement, because solar generation has already been pushed toward its limit. We also demonstrate cannot compete with photovoltaic reverse osmosis efficiency. conclude emphasizing importance factors other than including cost, ease maintenance, applicability hypersaline waters.

Language: Английский

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Ultrahigh-efficiency desalination via a thermally-localized multistage solar still

Energy & Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 13(3), P. 830 - 839

Published: Jan. 1, 2020

Passive vapor generation systems combining interfacial solar heating and vaporization enthalpy recycling enable high-efficient low-cost desalination.

Language: Английский

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

Nano Energy, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 68, P. 104324 - 104324

Published: Nov. 27, 2019

Language: Английский

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