Nanotechnology has transformed the world with its diverse applications, ranging from
industrial developments to impacting our daily lives. It has multiple applications throughout …

The separation of oil/water mixtures has become a major problem worldwide as oil spills
and the discharge of oily wastewater. Materials with special wettable surfaces have been …

Oil spill accidents and oily wastewater discharged by petrochemical industries have
severely wasted water resources and damaged the environment. The use of special wetting …

Frequent oil spill accidents, oily industrial wastewater and organic solvents discharge have
caused alarming and serious environmental, health and economic issues. Therefore, the …

Oil spills and the emission of oily wastewater have triggered serious water pollution and
environment problems. Effectively separating oil and water is a world-wide challenge and …

A surface is said to be isotropic in wettability when the contact angles measured in all
direction are identical. On the contrary, once a surface shows distinct contact angles in …

Oil spills and industrial oily wastewater discharges have caused serious environmental
pollution problems and exacerbated water shortages worldwide. The separation of …

Ceramic membranes have been widely explored as competent alternatives to traditional
polymeric membranes for treating oily wastewater. Despite the exceptionally high rejection …

Carbon fibre-reinforced polymers (CFRP), thanks to their properties such as lightness,
resistance to corrosion and fatigue, are emerging composite materials in the aeronautic …

Recently, membrane distillation (MD) has emerged as a versatile technology for treating
saline water and industrial wastewater. However, the long-term use of MD wets the …