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 …

Biomimetic super-lyophobic and super-lyophilic materials applied for oil/water separation: a new strategy beyond nature

B Wang, W Liang, Z Guo, W Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Oil spills and industrial organic pollutants have induced severe water pollution and
threatened every species in the ecological system. To deal with oily water, special wettability …

Oil/water separation with selective superantiwetting/superwetting surface materials

Z Chu, Y Feng, S Seeger - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The separation of oil from oily water is an important pursuit because of increasing worldwide
oil pollution. Separation by the use of materials with selective oil/water absorption is a …

MOF based engineered materials in water remediation: Recent trends

RM Rego, G Kuriya, MD Kurkuri, M Kigga - Journal of hazardous materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The significant upsurge in the demand for freshwater has prompted various developments
towards water sustainability. In this context, several materials have gained remarkable …

Polymer-derived heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials

H Wang, Y Shao, S Mei, Y Lu, M Zhang, J Sun… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials (HPCMs) have found extensive applications in
adsorption/separation, organic catalysis, sensing, and energy conversion/storage. The …

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 …

A review of graphene and graphene oxide sponge: material synthesis and applications to energy and the environment

V Chabot, D Higgins, A Yu, X **ao, Z Chen… - Energy & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper gives a comprehensive review about the most recent progress in synthesis,
characterization, fundamental understanding, and the performance of graphene and …

Ultralight, flexible, and fire‐resistant carbon nanofiber aerogels from bacterial cellulose

ZY Wu, C Li, HW Liang, JF Chen, SH Yu - Angewandte Chemie, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon-based aerogels, composed of interconnected threedimensional (3D) networks, have
attracted intensive attention because of their unique physical properties, such as low …

Environmental performance of graphene-based 3D macrostructures

N Yousefi, X Lu, M Elimelech, N Tufenkji - Nature nanotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Three-dimensional macrostructures (3DMs) of graphene and graphene oxide are
being developed for fast and efficient removal of contaminants from water and air. The large …

Ultralight covalent organic framework/graphene aerogels with hierarchical porosity

C Li, J Yang, P Pachfule, S Li, MY Ye, J Schmidt… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The fabrication of macroscopic objects from covalent organic frameworks (COFs) is
challenging but of great significance to fully exploit their chemical functionality and porosity …