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 …

Recent advances in nanomaterial-incorporated nanocomposite membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration

C Wang, MJ Park, DH Seo, E Drioli… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, there is an increasing interest on organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) for the
separation and recovery of organic solvents due to the high energy consumption and the …

Anisotropic superhydrophobic graphene aerogel with radial superelasticity and axial superstiffness for efficient on-demand oil–water separation

Y Yang, Z Ren, C Zhou, Y Lin, L Shi… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene aerogels possess unique advantages for treating oil–water mixtures, but their
fragile mechanical properties hinder further development, and their separation mechanisms …

Thin film composite membrane with improved permeance for reverse osmosis and organic solvent reverse osmosis

K Guan, S Fang, S Zhou, W Fu, Z Li… - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) is a widely used pressure-driven membrane process for desalination.
Advancements in membrane materials have driven RO technologies' development and …

3D‐Printed Robust Dual Superlyophobic Ti‐Based Porous Structure for Switchable Oil/Water Emulsion Separations

Y Yang, Z Ren, C Zhou, Y Lin, L Hou… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Smart surfaces with responsive wettability are unstable, and depend upon continuous
external stimuli, which limits their widespread application in switchable oil/water emulsions …

Scalable weaving of resilient membranes with on-demand superwettability for high-performance nanoemulsion separations

Y Wang, LF Villalobos, L Liang, B Zhu, J Li, C Chen… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
This study leverages the ancient craft of weaving to prepare membranes that can effectively
treat oil/water mixtures, specifically challenging nanoemulsions. Drawing inspiration from …

Flexible Z-scheme heterojunction membrane reactors for visible-light-driven antibiotic degradation and oil-water separation

X Feng, R Long, C Liu, Y Lu, X Liu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
This study fabricated PENS/TA/ZIF-67@ Ag 2 S (PZA), a double self-cleaning network
antifouling polymer membrane reactor, by the non-solvent-induced phase separation (NIPS) …

Dual superlyophobic zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 modified membrane for controllable oil/water emulsion separation

A Xie, J Cui, J Yang, Y Chen, J Lang, C Li, Y Yan… - Separation and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The oil/water emulsion separation has become a thorny problem worldwide. Membrane
separation based on superwetting materials has attracted immense attention in the domain …

Covalent organic framework functionalized smart membranes with under-liquid dual superlyophobicity for efficient separation of oil/water emulsions

Y Zhang, S Tian, Q Sha, J Lv, N Han… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The smart membrane with under-liquid dual superlyophobicity, which can achieve on-
demand separation of oil/water emulsions only by simple liquid pre-wetting, is of essential …

Bioinspired under-liquid dual superlyophobic surface for on-demand oil/water separation

Z Wang, M Guan, X Jiang, J Xiao, Y Shao, S Li… - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Porous membranes with under-liquid dual superlyophobic properties, which are difficult to
achieve because of a thermodynamic contradiction, have attracted considerable interest in …