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Systematic Review of Material and Structural Design in Interfacial Solar Evaporators for Clean Water Production

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Construction of a reduced graphene oxide/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-natural rubber (NR) porous rubber sponge toward solar-driven sustainable water purification

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Fe-based metal organic frameworks decorated wood for efficient solar-driven interfacial water evaporation

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Bioinspired Asymmetric Polypyrrole Membranes with Enhanced Photothermal Conversion for Highly Efficient Solar Evaporation

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Same area, better output: 3D rose-shaped multi-reflective hydrogel evaporator for salt-resistant seawater desalination and contaminant degradation

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Fabrication of stable MWCNT bucky paper for solar-driven interfacial evaporation by coupling γ-ray irradiation with borate crosslinking

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A Biomass Hybrid Hydrogel with Hierarchical Porous Structure for Efficient Solar Steam Generation

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3D structural-engineering evaporator integrating light-space-heat omnibearing regulation

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Hierarchically structured bilayer Aerogel-based Salt-resistant solar interfacial evaporator for highly efficient seawater desalination

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Robustly Inorganic Solar Steam Generator Derived from Hollow Glass Microspheres Based Composites for Desalination

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Photothermal catalysis for CO2 conversion

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Carbon-supported nano tungsten bronze aerogels with synergistically enhanced photothermal conversion performance: Fabrication and application in solar evaporation

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Bioinspired green tea waste/graphene aerogel for solar-enhanced uranium extraction from seawater

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Hierarchical CoMn-LDH based photothermal membrane with low evaporation enthalpy and narrow bandgap toward highly efficient Solar-Driven evaporation

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Structural and electronic engineering towards high-efficiency metal-free electrocatalysts for boosting oxygen evolution

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Tunable all-in-one bimodal porous membrane of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene for solar driven interfacial evaporation

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Polypyrrole@TiO2 Composite Nanotube System with Enhanced Capillary Fluid and Charge Transfer for High‐Current Hydrovoltaic Energy Generation and Seawater Purification

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Robust damage warning and healing tracing strategy for anticorrosion coatings on magnesium alloy AZ31enabled by polydopamine fluorophores

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Directionally tailoring micro-nano hierarchical tower structured Mn0.6Ni1.4Co2Oy toward solar interfacial evaporation

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Efficient enhancement of photothermal conversion of polymer-coated phase change materials based on reduced graphene oxide and polyethylene glycol

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Highly efficient and long-term stable solar-driven water purification through a rechargeable hydrogel evaporator

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Sustainable β-cyclodextrin modified polyacrylamide hydrogel for highly efficient solar-driven water purification

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Broadband efficient light-absorbing SS-PPy@CNT membranes prepared by electrochemical deposition for photothermal conversion

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Polydopamine wrapped polyaniline nanosheets: Synthesis and anticorrosion application for waterborne epoxy coatings

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Unraveling the potential of polydopamine-assisted photoresponsive polyurethanes for industrial and biomedical applications

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A biomass hybrid hydrogel with hierarchical porous structure for efficient solar steam generation

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A novel hierarchical chromium black membrane prepared by electroplating for desalination

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Effective solar-driven interfacial water evaporation-assisted adsorption of organic pollutants by a activated porous carbon material

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Bio-Inspired Hollow Carbon Microtubes for Multifunctional Photothermal Protective Coatings

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Highly efficient water steam generation via natural black urushiol-Fe polymeric microspheres coated-cotton fabric

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