Clean water resources are essential to our human society. Oil leakage has caused water
contamination, which leads to serious shortage of clean water, environmental deterioration …

Oil/water separation is a field of high significance as it has direct practical implications for
resolving the problem of industrial oily wastewater and other oil/water pollution. Therefore …

Oil leakage and the discharge of oil/water mixtures by domestic and industrial consumers
have caused not only severe environmental pollution and a threat to all species in the …

Crude oil spills, resulting from transportation, drilling or accident, are a severe threat to the
aqueous environment. However, crude oil with high viscosity makes the clean-up of oil spills …

Superoleophobicity is a phenomenon where the contact angles of various oil droplets with
low surface tension on a solid surface are larger than 150°. In the past few years, there has …

Oil sorbents play a very important part in the remediation processes of oil spills. To enhance
the oil‐sorption properties and simplify the oil‐recovery process, various advanced oil …

The increasing number of oil spill accidents have a catastrophic impact on our aquatic
environment. Recently, special wettable materials used for the oil/water separation have …

The threat of environmental pollution caused by spilled oil is rapidly increasing along with
the expansion of oil exploration, the development of maritime activities and industrial growth …

Marine oil spills have induced severe water pollution and threatened sea ecosystems, which
also result in a loss of energy resources. To deal with this problem, much work has been …

Oil–water separation is critical for the water treatment of oily wastewater or oil-spill
accidents. The oil contamination in water not only induces severe water pollution but also …