Solar interface evaporation is a promising technology for sustainable freshwater acquisition. Regulating the hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity of the evaporator can optimize the water transport, heat transfer, and evaporation enthalpy during the evaporat...
The use of solar interface evaporation for seawater desalination or sewage treatment is an environmentally friendly and sustainable approach; however, achieving efficient solar energy utilization and ensuring the long-term stability of the evaporatio...
The double-sided carbonization of poplar with different sections forms a three-layer structure inspired by tree water transpiration. A photothermal evaporation comparison experiment was conducted to simulate the influence of solar radiation intensity...
In this study, steady-state analytical modeling of a loop heat pipe (LHP) equipped with a flat evaporator is presented to predict the temperatures and pressures at each important part of the LHP—evaporator, liquid reservoir (compensation chambe...
The tension in the relationship between water and energy seriously restricts the harmonious coexistence between man and the ecological environment. The solar-powered interface evaporation technology emerging in recent years has shown good application...
The analysis of conformational changes of hydrocarbon molecules is imperative in the prediction of their transport properties in different phases, such as evaporation/condensation coefficients (β) in the gas-liquid interface and evaporation rates of...
The evolution of the liquid–vapour interface plays a crucial role in multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer, and fluid phase change in porous media. A thorough investigation of the interface under varying degrees of saturation is necessary and...
The development of technology for solar interface evaporation has a significant meaning for the sustainable use of water resources in remote regions. However, establishing a solar evaporator with a high evaporation rate and favorable water treatment...
Numerical simulations were carried out for moist, porous media, intermittent microwave convective drying (IMCD) using a multiphase flow model in porous media subdomains coupled with a forced-convection heat-transfer model in an external hot air subdo...
The construction of a heterostructured nanowires array allows the simultaneous manipulation of the interfacial, surface, charge transport, and transfer properties, offering new opportunities to achieve multi-functionality for various applications. He...
The present study aims to measure the solid–liquid interface temperature of an evaporating droplet on a heated surface using a thermoresponsive polymer. Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAM) was used owing to its sensitive optical and mechanical prope...
To exploit unique properties of thin films of group III-nitride semiconductors, the production of native substrates is to be developed. The best choice would be AlN; however, presently available templates on sapphire or SiC substrates are defective....
This study numerically and experimentally investigated the maximum heat transfer rate of the evaporator in loop heat pipes (LHPs) using a pore network simulation that considers the vapor–liquid interface within the evaporator wick under high he...
Interfacial solar evaporation has emerged as a promising strategy for freshwater production, where 3D evaporators offer distinct advantages in heat management and salt rejection. Freeze–thaw cycling is a widely adopted fabrication method for 3D...
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation has emerged as a sustainable and highly efficient technology for seawater desalination, attracting considerable attention for its potential to address global water scarcity. However, challenges such as low evapora...
The global shortage of freshwater supply has become an imminent problem. The high energy consumption of traditional desalination technology cannot meet the demand for sustainable energy development. Therefore, exploring new energy sources to obtain p...
Getting drinking water from seawater is a hope and long-term goal that has long been explored. Here, we report graphene-loaded nonwoven fabric membranes for seawater purification based on photothermal heating. The photothermal membrane of non-woven f...
Experimental and numerical experiments were carried out to study the coffee rings or coffee splats formed by droplet evaporation with micro or nano polystyrene sphere particles (Dp = 10 μm or 100 nm). Particle image velocimetry (PIV) and a high-re...
The global shortage of freshwater resources and the energy crisis have propelled solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) coupled with photocatalytic technology to become a research focus in efficient and low-carbon water treatment. Graphene-based...
Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have gained significant attention as an interfacial engineering strategy for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) due to their efficient charge transport ability and work function tunability. While solution-based methods suc...
An efficient solar water evaporator is an important strategy for addressing the problem of water shortage. Constructing high-performance solar interfacial evaporators through bionic design has become a crucial approach for performance enhancement. Th...
Energy obtained by green ways with releasing environmental pollution is still a challenge for sustainable development for model society. Among energy technologies, photothermal conversion by using solar energy has become a new field and a hot topic i...
The main idea of membrane distillation is to use a porous hydrophobic membrane as a barrier that isolates vapor from aqueous solutions. It is similar to the evaporation process from a free water surface but introduces solid–liquid interfaces an...
The underwater nonwetted state on a superhydrophobic surface is hardly maintained in flowing water because the entrapped gas dissolves into the water or is carried off by flow. Therefore, a source gas is necessary to maintain a superhydrophobic state...
This paper investigates the coupled relationship between solid-phase temperature fields and droplet evaporation, focusing on the effects of substrate thermal conduction properties on droplet evaporation behavior. A mathematical model is developed to...
Evaporative cooling is a promising concept to improve proton exchange membrane fuel cells. While the particular concept based on gas diffusion layers (GDLs) modified with hydrophilic lines (HPILs) has recently been demonstrated, there is a lack in th...
Solar desalination is widely regarded as an effective way to solve freshwater scarcity. However, the balance between the costs of micro-nanostructures, thermal regulation, and the durability of interface evaporators must all be considered. In this st...
Solar-driven interface water evaporation is an energy-saving, environmentally friendly, and efficient seawater desalination and wastewater treatment technology. However, some challenges still restrict its further industrial development, such as its c...
To reveal the mechanism of energy storage in the water/graphene system and water/grapheme-oxide system, the processes of rapid evaporation of water molecules on the sheets of graphene and graphene-oxide are investigated by molecular dynamics simulati...
The three-dimensional (3D) flow below the interface of an evaporating liquid at a low pressure is visualized and quantified using scanning particle image velocimetry. The technique presented highlights the use of a single camera and a relatively fast...
A method of simulating the drying process of a soft matter solution with an implicit solvent model by moving the liquid-vapor interface is applied to various solution films and droplets. For a solution of a polymer and nanoparticles, we observe &ldqu...
High energy consumption is a pressing issue in the development of wastewater evaporation technologies. In this paper, a low-energy-consumption approach utilizing single-electrode high-voltage electric field-enhanced evaporation is proposed. Experimen...
Currently, solar-driven interface evaporation for seawater desalination is believed to be an effective way to overcome freshwater shortage. To improve the efficiency of solar-driven interfacial evaporators, designing the evaporator’s structure...
With the increasing shortage of water resources and the aggravation of water pollution, solar-driven interfacial steam generation (SISG) technology has garnered considerable attention because of its low energy consumption, simple operation, and envir...
Studies have shown that oceanic surface-water salinity varies across the globe and changes over time, while atmospheric water-vapor levels have also increased in recent decades. Evaporation from ocean and inland waters is controlled primarily by mete...
Understanding the mechanism of bubble growth is crucial to modeling boiling heat transfer and enabling the development of technological applications, such as energy systems and thermal management processes, which rely on boiling to achieve the high h...
Recently, solar-driven seawater desalination has received extensive attention since it can obtain considerable freshwater by accelerating water evaporation at the air–water interface through solar evaporators. However, the high air–water...
Solid polymer electrolytes show their potential to partially replace conventional electrolytes in electrochemical devices. The solvent evaporation rate represents one of many options for modifying the electrode–electrolyte interface by affectin...
The effect of magnetic fields on water is still a highly controversial topic despite the vast amount of research devoted to this topic in past decades. Enhanced water evaporation in a magnetic field, however, is less disputed. The underlying mechanis...
Thin vapor chambers are attractive for compact electronics but become difficult to operate reliably as the vapor space approaches the millimeter scale, especially when classical wick structures are omitted. This work investigates how coupled evaporat...
Properties such as large surface area, high pore volume, high chemical and thermal stability, and structural flexibility render zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) well-suited materials for gas separation, chemical sensors, and optical and electri...
One of the main trends in the development of solar interface evaporation technology is the simple, efficient, and environmentally friendly bio-based evaporation device. However, the development of bio-based evaporators with high water evaporation rat...
The evaporation of sessile droplets is not only a common occurrence in daily life, but it also plays a vital role in many scientific and industrial fields. However, most of the current research is focused on the evaporation of droplets in the air env...
Evaporation of a sessile drop is ubiquitous in nature and has many industrial applications. Despite extensive studies over recent decades, a critical issue, i.e., how temperature varies near contact lines, remains elusive. In this work, we report to...
Solar-driven evaporation is a promising technology for desalinating seawater and wastewater without mechanical or electrical energy. The approaches to obtaining fresh water with higher evaporation efficiency are essential to address the water-scarcit...
Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) is a technique for treating high-salinity brine to obtain freshwater and/or salt using a solar interface evaporator. However, salt accumulation on the surface of the evaporator is a big challenge to maintaining stable wate...
Solar vapor generation is emerging as one of the most important sustainable techniques for harvesting clean water using abundant and green solar energy. The rational design of solar evaporators to realize high solar evaporation performances has becom...
A vapor chamber can meet the cooling requirements of high heat flux electronic equipment. In this paper, based on a proposed vapor chamber with a side window, a vapor chamber experimental system was designed to visually study its evaporation and cond...
The horizontal drop film evaporator is a key component of the mechanical vapor recompression crystallization system, which can be used to evaporate effluent and recycle secondary vapor energy. However, the properties of heat transfer and flow of the...
In this paper, the interaction mechanism between the solid–liquid–gas interface phenomenon caused by nanostructure and surface wettability and boiling heat transfer is described, and the heat transfer theory of single wettable nanostructu...
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