Yang Zhong

TL;DR: In this paper, a dual-stage solar-thermal-driven atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) system with optimized transport is proposed to recover the latent heat of condensation of the top stage and maintain the required temperature difference between stages, enabling higher daily water productivity than a single-stage device without auxiliary units for heating or vapor transport.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the potential of novel system architectures and fluid flow engineering to enable anti-fouling and robust desalination devices and highlight the balance between water production, reliability, and cost.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors demonstrate highly efficient (>80% solar-to-vapor conversion efficiency) and salt rejecting (20 weight % salinity) solar evaporation by engineering the fluidic flow in a wick-free confined water layer.

TL;DR: In this article, the population of nucleation sites is governed by the Poisson distribution, whereas the nearest-neighbor distance follows the Rayleigh distribution instead of the commonly used poisson distribution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the van der Waals binding effect on heat transport through a MoS2-amorphous silica heterostructure and identify a regime, characterized by the coupling of in-plane and crossplane heat transport mediated by vdW binding energy, where maximal heat dissipation in the device is achieved.