Solar stills are considered to be a simple apparatus used to convert saline water into potable water by the application of solar energy. Because of its low distillate yield, it is not used for ...

Solar stills provide a clever and simple means of purifying dirty or salty water, but they work at a rather slow rate. A new material has been shown to boost their performance, and it's made from ...

In double-slope solar stills (DSS), a significant amount of solar energy is wasted as heat and reducing the system freshwater generation efficiency. To overcome this, a reconstructed double-slope ...

Professor Qiaoqiang Gan (left) and research scientist Kaijie Yang (right) teamed up with fellow KAUST professor Yu Han (not pictured) to improve the salt-rejection ...