Advanced super-hydrophobic polymer-based porous absorbents for the treatment of oil-polluted water

AT Hoang, S Nižetić, XQ Duong, L Rowinski… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The threat of environmental pollution caused by spilled oil is rapidly increasing along with
the expansion of oil exploration, the development of maritime activities and industrial growth …

Recent progress in polysaccharide aerogels: Their synthesis, application, and future outlook

A Muhammad, D Lee, Y Shin, J Park - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Porous polysaccharides have recently attracted attention due to their porosity, abundance,
and excellent properties such as sustainability and biocompatibility, thereby resulting in their …

Thermal conductivity, structure and mechanical properties of konjac glucomannan/starch based aerogel strengthened by wheat straw

Y Wang, K Wu, M Xiao, SB Riffat, Y Su, F Jiang - Carbohydrate polymers, 2018 - Elsevier
This study presents the preparation and property characterization of a konjac glucomannan
(KGM)/starch based aerogel as a thermal insulation material. Wheat straw powders (a kind …

Solvent-free nanoalumina loaded nanocellulose aerogel for efficient oil and organic solvent adsorption

X Zhou, Q Fu, H Liu, H Gu, Z Guo - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Cellulose-based aerogel, due to its rich reserves, environmental friendliness
and porous structure, is considered as a new type of adsorbents for treating oil and water …

Fabrication and characterization of nano-cellulose aerogels via supercritical CO2 drying technology

X Wang, Y Zhang, H Jiang, Y Song, Z Zhou, H Zhao - Materials Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, we developed a novel technique to fabricate nano-cellulose aerogels.
Cellulose solution was dropped to calcium chloride solution and nano-cellulose aerogels …

Smart microfibrillated cellulose as swab sponge-like aerogel for real-time colorimetric naked-eye sweat monitoring

TA Khattab, S Dacrory, H Abou-Yousef, S Kamel - Talanta, 2019 - Elsevier
Collecting sweat sample for onsite testing is a sophisticated process as the analysis process
must be completed in a real-time with a highly absorptive and sensitive device in order to …

Dual template strategy to prepare ultralight and high-temperature resistant ceramic nanorod aerogels for efficient thermal insulation

F Liu, Y Jiang, J Feng, L Li, J Feng - Ceramics International, 2023 - Elsevier
Ceramic aerogels are considered as promising thermal insulation materials used in extreme
environments. However, the combination of ultralight, high heat tolerance and ultra-low high …

A facile approach to light weight, high porosity cellulose aerogels

H Geng - International journal of biological macromolecules, 2018 - Elsevier
This work reported a facile approach to make cellulose-based aerogels in NaOH/urea
aqueous solution via freeze-drying hydrogels, which were obtained by mixing N, N …

Enhancement of ceramic foam modified hierarchical Al2O3@ expanded graphite on thermal properties of 1-octadecanol phase change materials

S Gong, X Cheng, Y Li, D Shi, X Wang… - Journal of Energy Storage, 2019 - Elsevier
The porous Al 2 O 3 ceramic foam was composited with expanded graphite (EG) by
calcination method to obtain Al 2 O 3@ EG composite with hierarchical pores. The specific …

Interface growth of PANI-ZnO nanohybrids on a self-formed grapefruit peel aerogel to construct a quick self-restored gas sensor

C Wang, HY Yu, Z Miao, D Ge… - ACS Sustainable …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A series of gas sensors based on compound conductive polymers and metal oxides with p–
n heterojunctions have received a lot of interest. Also, the gas response is significantly …