Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 128623 - 128623
Published: Dec. 1, 2024
Language: Английский
Nature Water, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 3(2), P. 144 - 156
Published: Jan. 10, 2025
Language: Английский
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Separation and Purification Technology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 132074 - 132074
Published: Feb. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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Materials Today, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Feb. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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Advanced Electronic Materials, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Feb. 9, 2025
Abstract Water and energy are the cornerstones of human development, with more than half world's population facing water scarcity issues. Atmospheric moisture is widely distributed around globe, rational utilization can create tremendous value. Here, sources hygroscopic materials, methods manufacturing hydrogels, properties these potential applications concluded. To make hydrogels high hydrophilicity, ultrasonic oscillation, freeze drying, spin coating be used as synthesis strategies. The main focus on characteristic parameters uptake, dehydration temperature, conductivity, mechanical stability, swelling behaviors, heat transfer coefficient. These unique features will affect performances assembles, devices, instruments. Subsequently, summarized, such harvesting splitting fuel production, dehumidification, thermal management in electronic solar evaporation, electricity production. Finally, future directions issues interest proposed to promote diverse development relational systems.
Language: Английский
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Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16(1)
Published: March 1, 2025
The escalating food and water crisis, propelled by population growth, urbanization, climate change, demands a reimagining of agricultural practices. Traditional water-saving irrigation methods have reached their limits, necessitating the exploration innovative approaches. This perspective explores potential utilizing excess light in greenhouse cultivation through advanced materials engineering technologies. We investigate four key technologies—sorption-based atmosphere harvesting (SAWH), superabsorbent polymer holding (SPWH), radiative cooling (RC), seawater desalination. proposes suitable application future development directions for conservation, aiming to introduce novel strategies smarter resource management. crisis solutions. Here, authors propose next-generation strategy integrating technologies, including atmospheric harvesting, polymers, cooling, solar-driven
Language: Английский
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ACS Nano, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: March 8, 2025
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) has emerged as a promising technology for addressing global water scarcity by utilizing solar-thermal conversion and at the air/material/water interface. The exceptional performance of these systems attracted significant interest; it is imperative to establish rigorous scientific standards evaluating effectiveness, optimizing system design, ensuring efficient practical applications. In this Review, we propose consensus criteria accurately assessing guiding future advancements. We then explore fundamental mechanisms driving synergy, emphasizing how material compositions, microscopic hierarchical structures, macroscopic three-dimensional spatial architecture designs enhance solar absorption photothermal conversion; balance heat confinement with pathway optimization; manage salt resistance; regulate enthalpy during vaporization. These matched coordination strategies are crucial maximizing target SDIE efficiency. Additionally, investigate applications technologies, focusing on cutting-edge progress versatile purification, combined atmospheric harvesting, collection, electric generation, deicing. Finally, highlight challenges exciting opportunities advancing research, efforts integrate principles, system-level collaboration, application-driven approaches boost sustainable highly energy technologies. By linking evaluation optimization influencing factors, offer comprehensive overview field outlook that promotes clean production synergistic
Language: Английский
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Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Aug. 31, 2024
Superabsorbent hydrogels made from agro waste materials have the potential to promote sustainable agriculture and environmental sustainability. These not only help reduce water consumption increase crop yields but also contribute minimizing lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Recent research on superabsorbent derived wastes has focused preparation of based natural polymers isolated wastes, such as cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin. This review provides an in-depth examination developed raw extracted highlighting that these studies start with main materials. The utilization strategies for specific types are comprehensively described. outlines different methods utilized in production hydrogels, including physical cross-linking techniques dissolution-regeneration freeze–thawing, well chemical involving various agents graft polymerization free radical polymerization, microwave-assisted γ radiation polymerization. Specifically, this explores applications waste-based enhancing soil properties retention slow-release fertilizers agriculture.
Language: Английский
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Advanced Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Nov. 7, 2024
Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH) shows great promise to mitigate the worldwide scarcity, especially in arid regions. Salt-based composite materials are extensively used sorbents for SAWH, however, they suffer from complex preparation avoid salt leakage. Furthermore, significant amount of heat produced during process is often neglected and wasted. Herein, an integrated strategy developed synthesis salt-based stable super moisture-sorbent sponge by using chelation LiCl dopamine (DA), simultaneous polymerization DA on melamine (PMS). The as-prepared LiCl/PMS/CNTs showed high uptake, reaching 1.26 1.81 g
Language: Английский
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Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 160848 - 160848
Published: Feb. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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Advanced Functional Materials, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: March 4, 2025
Abstract The pressing need to address the water‐food nexus, exacerbated by climate change and a rapidly growing population, calls for innovative approaches in agricultural water management. This study introduces pioneering device, side window recycler (SWR), which is specifically designed greenhouses increase water‐use efficiency. Central SWR multi‐component, interconnected hygroscopic porous gel named LHPE, boasts significant scalability robust adhesion properties. When synthesized through an optimized process, LHPE high uptake of up 4.06 g sorbent −1 , supporting rapid release during desorption. utilizes this advanced capture vapor escaping from greenhouse windows, converting it into irrigation electrically heated Within trials, achieved recovery rate 5015.6 m⁻ 2 water‐saving efficiency 78.78%, significantly enhancing crop yields as much 120%. By integrating sustainable recycling agriculture, addresses global scarcity crisis represents transformative advance efficiency, poised impactful adoption water‐intensive practices worldwide.
Language: Английский
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