Materials for solar-powered water evaporation

Fei Zhao; Youhong Guo; Xingyi Zhou; Wen Shi; Guihua Yu

doi:10.1038/s41578-020-0182-4

Keywords

Solar energyProcess engineeringMicroscale chemistryMaterials scienceNanotechnologyEnergy transformationEvaporationEnvironmental scienceEngineeringMeteorology

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The University of Texas at Austin US

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Year: 2020
Type: review
Volume: 5
Issue: 5
Pages: 388-401
Citations: 1328
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                                    Fei Zhao, 
                                
                                    Youhong Guo, 
                                
                                    Xingyi Zhou
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2020). 
                            Materials for solar-powered water evaporation. 
                            Nature Reviews Materials
                            , 5
                            (5)
                            , 388-401.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-020-0182-4
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41578-020-0182-4