A sheet of metal, barely larger than a notebook, sits under a lamp in a University of Rochester lab. Seawater creeps up its surface in a thin film, drawn by microscopic grooves too small to see ...

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 ...

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 ...