ArticleNature communications2024
Thermodiffusive desalination.
Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Thermodiffusion in aqueous alkali halide solutions from ambient to supercooled conditions: ion-specific, structural, and mass effects.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2026Article
- Advanced Strategies of Salt Blocking in the Hypersaline Water.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2026Review
- Crystallisation triggered by mass diffusion at a lower local supersaturation.Communications chemistry · 2026Article
- Engineering Charge Heterogeneity in COF/Graphene Hydrogels for Salt-Resistant Solar Evaporation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Thermophobic diffusion becomes dominant in ultra-dilute alkali halide aqueous solutions.Communications chemistry · 2025Article
- Saline irrigation improves survival of forage sorghum but limits growth and increases toxicity.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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5 authors.
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Abstract
Desalination could solve the grand challenge of water scarcity, but materials-based and conventional thermal desalination methods generally suffer from scaling, fouling and materials degradation. Here, we propose and assess thermodiffusive desalination (TDD), a method that operates entirely in the liquid phase and notably excludes evaporation, freezing, membranes, or ion-adsorbing materials. Thermodiffusion is the migration of species under a temperature gradient and can be driven by thermal energy ubiquitous in the environment. Experimentally, a 450 ppm concentration drop was achieved by thermodiffusive separation when passing a NaCl/H
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