A5005094635- Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
- Membrane Separation Technologies
- Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
- Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
- Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
- Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
- Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies
- Phase Change Materials Research
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Adsorption and Cooling Systems
- Algal biology and biofuel production
- Aerogels and thermal insulation
- Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
- Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
- Fuel Cells and Related Materials
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
- Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems
University of Technology Sydney
2021-2025
East China Normal University
2018-2021
This perspective highlights the challenges and opportunities in interfacial evaporation, heat water management, materials synthesis, device development for solar steam generation.
Hydrogels are emerging as an ideal platform for sustainable water and energy nexuses due to their low-cost, ease of processing, versatile functions, unique structural networks, high adaptability. The establishment a solar-thermal-electricity system assumes critical importance in achieving effective solar utilization. This review focuses on recent advances hydrogel-enabled steam generation (SGG) atmospheric harvesting (AWH) systems discuss extended applications renewable energy, such...
This study reports a facile technique to synthesize and tune the cationic polymer, poly(3-acrylamidopropyl)trimethylammonium chloride (PAPTAC), in terms of molecular weight surface change for harvesting three microalgae species (Scenedesmus sp., P.purpureum, C. vulgaris). The PAPTAC polymer was synthesised by UV-induced free-radical polymerisation. Polymer tuning demonstrated regulating monomer concentration (60 360 mg/mL) UV power (36 60 W) obtained evaluated different compared commercially...
Boron nanosheets improve evaporation rates of hydrogel-based solar vapour generators. The extensive B–O bonds lead to high energy conversion efficiency and reduce water enthalpy. system also shows salt resistance durability.
Hydrogel-based solar water purification technology has been recognized as a promising alternative to existing energy-intensive technologies. This is timely review of the recent 3 years, focusing on design principles and remaining challenges.
Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is a potentially promising small-scale approach to alleviate the crisis in arid or semiarid regions. Inspired by asymmetric structure of tillandsia leaves, plant species native regions, we report development bioinspired composite (BiC) draw moisture for AWH applications. With advent post-COVID era, nonwoven materials used masks are discarded, landfilled, incinerated along with as medical waste, and negative impact on environment inevitable. The sheet has...
We correlated the hydration ability of different hydrophilic groups to varying performance their corresponding hydrogels in solar vapor generation (SVG), establishing relationships between chemical structure, property, and applications.
Innovative digital light processing 3D printing ink specifically designed for hydrogels minimizes precursor content, enhances porosity, and improves water evaporation efficiency in interfacial solar steam generation.
By selecting appropriate polymer precursors, we developed a novel cryogel solar vapor generator for seawater desalination with high intermediate water content lower evaporation enthalpy and interconnected macropores rapid replenishment.
Abstract Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is considered one of the promising technologies to alleviate uneven‐distribution resources and scarcity in arid regions world. Hydrogel‐based AWH materials are currently attracting increasing attention due their low cost, high energy efficiency simple preparation. However, there a knowledge gap screening hydrogel‐based terms structure‐property relationships, which may increase cost trial error research fabrication. In this study, we synthesised...
Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) has been recognized as a next-generation technology to alleviate shortages in arid areas. However, the current AWH materials suffer from insufficient adsorption capacity and high-water retention, which hinder practical application of materials. In this study, we developed novel dual-layered hydrogel (DLH) composed light-to-heat conversion layer (LHL) containing polydopamine-manganese nanoparticles (PDA-Mn NPs) (WAL) made 2-(acryloyloxyethyl)...
Our increasing water demand has been an ongoing critical challenge due to usages in areas such as industrial, agriculture, and domestic household. Conventional production faces challenges, high investment, energy consumption, brine discharge that may be unsustainable the future. Solar steam generation (SSG) recently proposed by many researchers their sustainable green method. Here we demonstrated use of simple manufacturing low-cost dual-layer hydrogel (DLH) system containing a double...
Finding an efficient water harvesting technique is currently highly sought-after due to the rise of demand. Solar vapor generators (SVGs) have recently shown promising results be used as a cleaner alternative system for desalination application. However, recent SVGs using semiconductor photo-thermal materials (PTMs) still suffer from low average evaporation performance. This study aims develop novel high-water generating hydrogel-based SVG consisting cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)...
Abstract Constructing new cation exchange membranes (CEM) has been regarded as an easy and effective approach to improving the capacitive deionization (CDI) system. In this study, a method of fabrication CEM was introduced by crosslinking sulfosuccinic acid (SSA) citric (CA). The SSA CA were crosslinked with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fabricate CEMs in series conditions. ion transference number for each fabricated membrane tested select optimal recipe. selected then CDI system results show that...
Abstract Smoked cigarette butts are a non-biodegradable pollutant that has damaged the planet. However, carbon materials derived from have proven to be suitable for various applications. We synthesized butt-derived via hydrothermal carbonization and chemical activation methods then converted it an electrode material capacitive deionization. The fabricated material, SCC-750, exhibited relatively high salt adsorption capacity of 10.27 mg g−1. excellent CDI (capacitive deionization) performance...
The increasing water usage demand in industrial and agricultural sectors domestic household has been an ongoing critical challenge to overcome. Our current solution of production faces challenges such as high investment, energy consumption, brine discharge that may be unsustainable the future. Solar steam generation (SSG) recently proposed by many researchers due their sustainable green method. Here we demonstrate use dual-layer hydrogel (DLH) system containing positive charged...