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Solar steam generation through bio-inspired interface heating of broadband-absorbing plasmonic membranes
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In this paper, a plasmonic membrane (PM) was fabricated for realizing the bio-inspired interface solar heating and continuous steam transportation through the micropores of the membranes, achieving a solar steam generation efficiency of ∼85% at an illumination power of 10kWm −2.About:
This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2017-06-01. It has received 253 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Concentrated solar power & Nanofluids in solar collectors.read more
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Solar-driven interfacial evaporation
TL;DR: Tao et al. as discussed by the authors discuss the development of the key components for achieving high-performance evaporation, including solar absorbers and structures, thermal insulators and thermal concentrators.
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Challenges and Opportunities for Solar Evaporation
TL;DR: In this article, a review of recent developments in photothermal materials, with a focus on their photothermal conversion mechanisms as light absorbers, is presented, and the potential applications of this attractive technology in a variety of energy and environmental fields are described.
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Materials for solar-powered water evaporation
TL;DR: In this article, the fundamental principles of materials design for efficient solar-to-thermal energy conversion and vapour generation are summarized for both fundamental research and practical water-purification applications.
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A salt-rejecting floating solar still for low-cost desalination
George Ni,Seyed Hadi Zandavi,Seyyed Morteza Javid,Svetlana V. Boriskina,Thomas Cooper,Gang Chen +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a salt-rejecting evaporation structure that can operate continuously under sunlight to generate clean vapor while floating in a saline body of water such as an ocean is presented.
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Recent progress in the use of renewable energy sources to power water desalination plants
Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem,Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem,M. El Haj Assad,Enas Taha Sayed,Bassel Soudan +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of water resources in modern societies and the challenges facing modern societies, while water covers about two thirds of the surface of the earth, while air covers less than one third of it.
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Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades
Mark A. Shannon,Paul W. Bohn,Paul W. Bohn,Menachem Elimelech,Menachem Elimelech,John G. Georgiadis,Benito J. Mariñas,Anne M. Mayes,Anne M. Mayes +8 more
TL;DR: Some of the science and technology being developed to improve the disinfection and decontamination of water, as well as efforts to increase water supplies through the safe re-use of wastewater and efficient desalination of sea and brackish water are highlighted.
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The Future of Seawater Desalination: Energy, Technology, and the Environment
TL;DR: The possible reductions in energy demand by state-of-the-art seawater Desalination technologies, the potential role of advanced materials and innovative technologies in improving performance, and the sustainability of desalination as a technological solution to global water shortages are reviewed.
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Toward Cost-Effective Solar Energy Use
TL;DR: New developments in nanotechnology, biotechnology, and the materials and physical sciences may enable step-change approaches to cost-effective, globally scalable systems for solar energy use.
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Solar steam generation by heat localization
TL;DR: Development of an approach and corresponding material structure for solar steam generation while maintaining low optical concentration and keeping the bulk liquid at low temperature with no vacuum, which provides a novel approach to harvesting solar energy for a broad range of phase-change applications.
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Generating heat with metal nanoparticles
TL;DR: In particular, the amount of generated heat and temperature increase depends on the number of colloidal nanoparticles in a complex and the shape and organization of the nanoparticles as mentioned in this paper, which suggests new possibilities for measuring heat release at the nanoscale.