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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Chitosan/lignin nanocomposites were coated on bagasse paper surface to improve
antimicrobial packaging. A commercial softwood kraft lignin was selected and purified by …

Surface topographies of cell culture substrates can be used to generate in vitro cell culture
environments similar to the in vivo cell niches. In vivo, the physical properties of the …