Youhong Guo
University of Texas at Austin
19 Papers
Youhong Guo is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Self-healing hydrogels & Portable water purification. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 19 publications. Previous affiliations of Youhong Guo include University of California, San Diego.
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Papers
Materials for solar-powered water evaporation
TL;DR: In this article, the fundamental principles of materials design for efficient solar-to-thermal energy conversion and vapour generation are summarized for both fundamental research and practical water-purification applications.
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Hydrogels and Hydrogel-Derived Materials for Energy and Water Sustainability.
TL;DR: This review highlights the highly tunable synthesis of various hydrogels, involving key synthetic elements such as monomer/polymer building blocks, cross-linkers, and functional additives, and discusses how hydrogles can be employed as precursors and templates for architecting three-dimensional frameworks of electrochemically active materials.
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A hydrogel-based antifouling solar evaporator for highly efficient water desalination
TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid hydrogel composed of a hydrophilic polymer framework (polyvinyl alcohol, PVA) and solar absorber (reduced graphene oxide, rGO), which has internal capillary channels was used for solar evaporation.
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Architecting highly hydratable polymer networks to tune the water state for solar water purification
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that enhancing the hydrability of the h-LAH could change the water state and partially activate the water, hence facilitating water evaporation, and raises the solar vapor generation to a record rate of ~3.6 kg m−2 hour−1 under 1 sun.
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Biomass‐Derived Hybrid Hydrogel Evaporators for Cost‐Effective Solar Water Purification
TL;DR: A naturally abundant biomass, konjac glucomannan, together with simple-to-fabricate iron-based metal-organic framework-derived photothermal nanoparticles is introduced into the polyvinyl alcohol networks, building hybrid hydrogel evaporators in a cost-effective fashion.
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