Recent advances of polyurethane composite foam materials in oil/water separation applications

M Gu, Y Qin, X Wang, S Li, Y Sun, M Xue… - Industrial & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Oil/water separation is an important pursuit because of the increasing worldwide oil
pollution. The key to solving this problem is to develop high-performance materials and …

In situ self-foaming preparation of hydrophobic polyurethane foams for oil/water separation

L Fan, R Wang, Q Zhang, S Liu, R He… - New Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Discharge of oily sewage causes serious environmental pollution and waste of resources,
which can be solved by the process of oil/water separation. Polyurethane foam is a kind of …

Synthesis and characterization of porous fibers/polyurethane foam composites for selective removal of oils and organic solvents from water

T Zhang, L Kong, M Zhang, F Qiu, J Rong, J Pan - Rsc Advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In the field of oil/water separation, functional oil-absorbing materials with both controllable
porous structures and swelling properties are highly desirable. In the present study, we …

Preparation of 3-D porous PVDF/TPU composite foam with superoleophilic/hydrophobicity for the efficient separation of oils and organics from water

Z Cui, J Wu, J Chen, X Wang, J Si, Q Wang - Journal of Materials Science, 2021 - Springer
Nowadays, oils and organics pollutions have become more serious, which causes great
threats both to the ecological environment and human life. To solve this problem …

Preparation of biomass carbon/polyurethane foams for selective oil/water absorption

L Ren, Z Qiu, Z Wang, D Yang, D Zhou… - Journal of Dispersion …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Although the preparation of polyurethane foam (PUF) composites for oil absorption have
attracted increasing research attention, the preparation process of PUF composites are still a …

[HTML][HTML] Foamed materials for oil-water separation

KV Udayakumar, PM Gore… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Foamed materials are honeycomb-shaped structures bearing porous networks which exhibit
considerable compressive strengths, and excellent efficiency for oil-water separation. The …

Lightweight, mechanical robust foam with a herringbone-like porous structure for oil/water separation and filtering

X Cao, Y Zhou, X Wei, W Zhai, G Zheng, K Dai, C Liu… - Polymer Testing, 2018 - Elsevier
The advancement of the super absorbent materials with a prominent mechanical robustness
for oil-water separation is urgently needed because marine oil-spillage and industrial oily …

A novel hierarchical hollow SiO2@ MnO2 cubes reinforced elastic polyurethane foam for the highly efficient removal of oil from water

D Yuan, T Zhang, Q Guo, F Qiu, D Yang, Z Ou - Chemical Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
Oil-polluted water has become a worldwide problem due to ever-increasing industrial oily
wastewater as well as the frequent oil spill accident. A superior oil adsorbing material …

Preparation of polymer-based foam for efficient oil–water separation based on surface engineering

Q Guo, D Shi, C Yang, G Wu - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The leakages of a large number of organic solvents and oil spills not only cause extensive
economic losses, but also destroy the ecological environment. However, there were few …

[HTML][HTML] A green approach to modify surface properties of polyurethane foam for enhanced oil absorption

ZC Ng, RA Roslan, WJ Lau, M Gürsoy, M Karaman… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The non-selective property of conventional polyurethane (PU) foam tends to lower its oil
absorption efficiency. To address this issue, we modified the surface properties of PU foam …