Bio-based materials with special wettability for oil-water separation

Q Fan, T Lu, Y Deng, Y Zhang, W Ma, R Xiong… - Separation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Oil leakage and the discharge of organic wastewater have not only threatened the
ecosystem, but also greatly aggravated water scarcity. The separation of oil-water mixture …

Janus membranes with asymmetric wettability applied in oil/water emulsion separations

R Zhang, Y Sun, Z Guo, W Liu - Advanced Sustainable …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With frequent oil spill accidents and the large amount of oily wastewater produced in various
industrial and domestic processes, the separation of emulsified oil/water mixtures has …

Efficient Oil/Water Separation by Zwitterionic Poly(sulfobetaine methacrylate)@Cu(OH)2 Nanoneedle Array-Coated Copper Meshes with Superwetting and …

H He, H Jiang, C Chen, L Ouyang… - ACS Sustainable …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Efficiently separating oil and water has become a globally challenging problem. Herein, we
report a novel graft-polymerization method to synthesize poly (sulfobetaine methacrylate) …

Facile fabrication of superhydrophobic magnetic bio-waste for oil spill cleanup

F Rezaei, S Hassanajili - Industrial Crops and Products, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we have demonstrated a facile method to convert corncob, an abundant and
low-cost bio-waste, into a superhydrophobic magnetic bio-sorbent with potential application …

Oil/water separation using waste-derived functional materials with special wetting behavior

AK Singh - Resources, 2022 - mdpi.com
The separation of both emulsified and immiscible oil/water mixtures using materials with
special wetting behavior (hydrophobic-oleophilic or hydrophilic-oleophobic and switchable …

Development of biosorbent from orange peel and fish skin waste for usage in petroleum industry

BS Kaith, R Kumar - Polymer, 2025 - Elsevier
In the present work biowaste orange peels and fish collagen-derived hydrophilic super-
absorbent was synthesized using polyvinyl alcohol and methacrylic acid, and a hybrid …

Polypyrrole coated membranes with tunable surface wettability for effective oil-water separation by chemical oxidation

B Wang, H Liu, C Chen, T Chen… - Materials Research …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The effective treatment of water pollution is still a major problem to be solved urgently,
especially the separation of oily wastewater. The development of membrane separation …

Controllable wettability of laser treated aluminum mesh for on-demand oil/water separation

J Zhang, J Liu, G Wang, L Huang… - Journal of Dispersion …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Oil/water separation has attracted more attention with the dramatic increasing of oil spill
accidents and arbitrarily discharged oily industrial water. However, many reported materials …