Solar Steam Generation for Sustainable Seawater Desalination and Energy Production

Author Biography

Dr. Ridha Djellabi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Alfaisal University, in Saudi Arabia. He has 16 years of experience in academia and research, with expertise in processes and systems for sustainable environmental remediation and energy generation. Dr. Djellabi has been ranked as one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University & Elsevier) since 2022. He received his PhD from Badji-Mokhtar University (Algeria) in Analytical Chemistry and Environment. Subsequently, he worked in research roles at LSRE-University of Porto (Portugal), RCEES, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China), Shenzhen University (China), the University of Milan, and the Universitat Rovira I Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). His current research centres on the design of solar materials for steam generation and photocatalytic applications in the environment and energy. He has co-authored more than 120 scientific publications, patents, and several book chapters. Prof. Van-Duong Dao is currently Dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering, at Phenikaa University, in Vietnam, where he is Group Leader of the Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Laboratory (RECS Lab). He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea, in 2013, after which he worked there as a Research Professor with support from the Brain Pool program, a prestigious grant from the National Research Foundation, until 2018. He has been included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University & Elsevier), since 2019, and was recognized as one of the top 1% of peer reviewers in Cross-Field (2018-2019) on Publons' global reviewer database. Prof. Dao has published more than 150 papers in the field of nanotechnology and its applications in refereed international journals. His research mainly focuses on the development of carbon-based hybrid materials for application to next-generation solar cells. Prof. Xianbao Wang is currently Dean of the Graduate School and Dean of the School of New Energy and Electrical Engineering at Hubei University, China, as well as Director of the Key Laboratory "Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials" with the Ministry of Education, China. He received his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002. Prof. Wang has been included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University & Elsevier) since 2019. He is an Outstanding Talent of the New Century recognized by the Ministry of Education, China. His research centres on new energy materials and nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications. He has published more than 200 journal papers, had over 30 Chinese invention patents authorized, and has successively undertaken more than 20 major research projects. Prof. Wang has also won three awards, including the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award of Hubei Province/Shanghai Municipality.