Renyuan Li

TL;DR: A carefully designed aqueous droplet light heating system along with a thorough mathematical procedure leads to a precise determination of internal light-to-heat conversion efficiency of a variety of nanomaterials, suggesting that MXene is a very promising light- to- Heat conversion material and thus deserves more research attention toward practical applications.

TL;DR: Self-healing hydrophobic light- to-heat conversion membranes for interfacial solar heating are fabricated by deposition of light-to- Heat conversion material of polypyrrole onto a porous stainless-steel mesh, followed by hydrophilic fluoroalkylsilane modification.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D cylindrical cup-shaped structure of mixed metal oxide as solar evaporator was proposed, and the 3D structure led to a high energy efficiency close to 100% under one-sun illumination due to the capability of the cup wall to recover the diffuse reflectance and thermal radiation heat loss.

TL;DR: A membrane-distillation device that exploits sunlight and the heat dissipated by an integrated solar cell unit, enabling simultaneous efficient production of electricity and drinkable water is developed.

TL;DR: A new solar evaporator design concept offers a promising technology especially for high salinity brine treatment in desalination plants to achieve greener ZLD desalinating as well as for hypersaline industrial wastewater treatment.