Fog harvesting devices inspired from single to multiple creatures: current progress and future perspective

Z Yu, T Zhu, J Zhang, M Ge, S Fu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing demand for clean water driven by the rapid growth of the population and the
pollution of water necessitates the development of direct and rapid water harvesting …

Advanced electrospun nanofibrous materials for efficient oil/water separation

Y Su, T Fan, W Cui, Y Li, S Ramakrishna… - Advanced Fiber Materials, 2022 - Springer
The frequent occurrence of crude oil leakage accidents and the massive discharge of
industrial oily wastewater not only caused huge damage and pollution to the ecosystem but …

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 …

A multifunctional and environmentally safe superhydrophobic membrane with superior oil/water separation, photocatalytic degradation and anti-biofouling …

Z Yin, F Yuan, M Xue, Y Xue, Y **e, J Ou, Y Luo… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater is typically complicated with spilled oil, water soluble toxic dyes and
microorganisms, making it hard to be processed and causing a significant threat to the …

Special superwetting materials from bioinspired to intelligent surface for on‐demand oil/water separation: a comprehensive review

Y Yang, Z Guo, W Liu - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since superwetting surfaces have emerged, on‐demand oil/water separation materials
serve as a new direction for meeting practical needs. This new separation mode uses a …

Advanced materials with special wettability toward intelligent oily wastewater remediation

W Zheng, J Huang, S Li, M Ge, L Teng… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
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 …

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 …

Robust, lightweight, hydrophobic, and fire-retarded polyimide/MXene aerogels for effective oil/water separation

NN Wang, H Wang, YY Wang, YH Wei… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polyimide (PI) aerogels have attracted great attention owing to their low density and
excellent thermal stability. However, hydrophobic surface modification is required for PI …

Design and fabrication of superwetting fiber-based membranes for oil/water separation applications

X Yue, Z Li, T Zhang, D Yang, F Qiu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
The separation of oily wastewater, including immiscible oil/water mixtures and emulsified
oil/water mixtures, is a worldwide challenge because of the large amount of oily wastewater …

Emerging functional porous polymeric and carbonaceous materials for environmental treatment and energy storage

B Zheng, X Lin, X Zhang, D Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The demand for practical and cost‐effective environmental treatment and energy storage
materials is exploding. Porous polymeric and carbonaceous materials have attracted …