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 ...

To achieve global sustainability goals, particularly access to clean water and sanitation, requires innovative, off-grid desalination technologies, such as solar stills. Conventional designs do offer ...

Freshwater scarcity in remote and arid regions necessitates desalination systems that are not only productive but also lightweight, low-cost, and easy to deploy. In this study, a transient numerical ...

A solar distillation device can purify brine from reverse osmosis plants with over 10 percent salinity, as well as water taken directly from the Red Sea. The technology offers double the freshwater ...