Porous Janus materials with unique asymmetries and functionality

L Yan, X Yang, Y Zhang, Y Wu, Z Cheng, SB Darling… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Porous Janus materials have attracted widespread attention due to their asymmetry in
wettability, charge, pore size or structure, thermal/electrical conductivity, and chemical …

Designing novel superwetting surfaces for high-efficiency oil–water separation: design principles, opportunities, trends and challenges

L Qiu, Y Sun, Z Guo - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Membrane filtration and absorption strategies based on superwetting surfaces for oil–water
separation have regained tremendous attention due to their being low cost, highly efficient …

Janus nanofibrous membrane with special micro-nanostructure for highly efficient separation of oil–water emulsion

M Wu, B **ang, P Mu, J Li - Separation and Purification Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Superwettable membranes with superhydrophilicity/underwater superoleophobicity
(SHL/UWSOB) or hydrophobicity/underoil superhydrophobicity (HB/UOSHB) are considered …

Separation mechanism and construction of surfaces with special wettability for oil/water separation

C Chen, D Weng, A Mahmood, S Chen… - ACS applied materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
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 …

Oil/water separation techniques: a review of recent progresses and future directions

RK Gupta, GJ Dunderdale, MW England… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Evolution of functional nanochannel membranes

ML Liu, CX Zhang, MJ Tang, SP Sun, W **ng… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Small molecules and ions pass through molecular separation membranes with channels at
the nanometer scale. These nanochannel membranes are playing an increasingly important …

Recent advances in femtosecond laser-structured Janus membranes with asymmetric surface wettability

Z Wu, K Yin, J Wu, Z Zhu, JA Duan, J He - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Janus wettability membranes have received much attention because of their asymmetric
surface wettability. On the basis of this distinctiveness from traditional symmetrical …

Dopamine: just the right medicine for membranes

HC Yang, RZ Waldman, MB Wu, J Hou… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mussel‐inspired chemistry has attracted widespread interest in membrane science and
technology. Demonstrating the rapid growth of this field over the past several years …

Janus membranes: exploring duality for advanced separation

HC Yang, J Hou, V Chen, ZK Xu - … Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Janus membranes are an emerging class of materials having opposing properties at an
interface. This structure results in selective and often novel transport characteristics. In this …

A multifunctional gelatin-based aerogel with superior pollutants adsorption, oil/water separation and photocatalytic properties

J Jiang, Q Zhang, X Zhan, F Chen - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
Designing multifunctional adsorbents that can satisfy sophisticated requirements in complex
water treatment fields remains challenging these days. In this work, an original and …