Materials and systems for solar-powered desalination
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
Sustainable Development Goal 6 from the United Nations aims to provide global access to safe and affordable drinking water. Solar-powered desalination can help achieve this, by using sunlight to remove salt and contaminants from sea and brackish water. The process can be decentralized, making it suitable for hard-to-reach locations and local communities. However, further development is needed in terms of materials and system design to improve performance, lower cost and simplify the process.
This Collection will bring together the latest developments in solar-powered desalination. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Direct and indirect solar desalination
- Developments in system design
- New materials
- Real-world demonstrations
- Multi-functional systems that combine water treatment with other functions, such as energy harvesting or pollutant degradation
- Solar-powered zero-liquid discharge desalination
- Solar-powered evaporation for resource recovery
We welcome the submission of any paper related to solar-powered desalination. All submissions will be subject to the same review process and editorial standards as regular Communications Materials Articles.
Editors
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Swee Ching Tan
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Zhenyuan Xu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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Hao-Cheng Yang
Zhejiang University, China
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Guihua Yu
The University of Texas at Austin, United States
