Concepedia

Omnidirectional and effective salt-rejecting absorber with rationally designed nanoarchitecture for efficient and durable solar vapour generation

Xiaoying Song, Hucheng Song, Ning Xu, Huafeng Yang, Lin Zhou, Linwei Yu, Jia Zhu, Jun Xu, Kunji Chen

Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2018 · 60 citations · 42 references

Abstract

Harvesting solar energy as heat has shown fascinating applications for the purification of polluted or saline water to address the water scarcity issue globally.

References

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

Menachem Elimelech, William A. Phillip · Science · 2011 · 6.3K citations

Engineering, Marine Energy, Water Energy +10

The path towards sustainable energy

Steven Chu, Yi Cui, Nian Liu · Nature Materials · 2016 · 4.6K citations · Full text

Engineering, Energy Revolution, Sustainable Energy +7

Solar steam generation by heat localization

Hadi Ghasemi, George Ni, Amy Marconnet et al. · Nature Communications · 2014 · 2.2K citations · Full text

Engineering, Solar Power, Energy Conversion +7

Light Trapping in Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells

Erik C. Garnett, Peidong Yang · Nano Letters · 2010 · 2.2K citations

Plasmon-enhanced Photovoltaics, Electrical Engineering, Optical Materials +14

3D self-assembly of aluminium nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced solar desalination

Lin Zhou, Yingling Tan, Jingyang Wang et al. · Nature Photonics · 2016 · 2.1K citations

Materials Science, Engineering, Nanomaterials +2