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Oily wastewater has caused serious damage to the human health and ecological environment. It is urgent to develop novel materials for high performance oil/water separation. Porous melamine sponges (MS) are considered as an ideal matrix material for oil/water separation. Herein, molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) modified with tannic acid (TA) and octadecylamine (ODA) was attached to MS framework via a facile dip‐coating method. This novel and eco‐friendly MS@(MoS2@ODA) sponge displays superior superhydrophobicity (WCA = 156.2°) and oil/water separation ability (absorption capacity = 113–145 g g−1). MoS2@ODA not only enhances surface roughness of MS framework, but also raises its specific surface area, causing an increase in the oil adsorption capacity of MS. Moreover, the composite sponge exhibited excellent chemical and mechanical stability. It is envisioned that this work can demonstrate a facile synthesis strategy for producing environmental friendliness MS with stable superhydrophobicity for high‐efficient oil/water separation.

This study reports on a series of crosslinked poly(arylene ether)s with POSS in the main chain. The fluorinated and terminated poly(arylene ether)s were first synthesized by the nucleophilic reaction of diphenol POSS and decafluorodiphenyl monomers, including decafluorobiphenyl, decaflurobenzophenone, and decafluorodiphenyl sulfone. They were then reacted with 3-hydroxyphenyl acetylene to produce phenylacetylene-terminated poly(arylene ether)s. The polymers were of excellent processability. When heated to a high temperature, the polymers converted into a crosslinked network, exhibiting a low range of dielectric constant from 2.17 to 2.58 at 1 HMz, strong resistance against chemical solutions, low dielectric losses, and good thermal and hydrophobic properties.

With the rapid rise of new technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence, electronic products are becoming smaller and higher power, and there is an increasing demand for electromagnetic interference shielding and thermal conductivity of electronic devices. In this work, hydroxyphenolphthalein type polyetherketone grafted carboxy carbon nanotube (PEK-C-OH-g-MWCNTs-COOH) composites were prepared by esterification reaction. The composites exhibited good thermal conductivity, and compared with (MWCNTs-COOH/PEEK) with randomly distributed fillers, (PEK-C-OH-g-MWCNTs-COOH) composites showed a significant advantage, with the same carbon nanotube content, the thermal conductivity of PEK-C-OH-g-MWCNTs-COOH/PEEK (30 wt%) was 0. 71 W/(m-K), which was 206% higher than that of PEEK and 0.52 W/(m-K) higher than that of MWCNTs-COOH/PEEK (26.1 wt%). In addition, the PEK-C-OH-g-MWCNTs-COOH) composite exhibited excellent electrical conductivity and electromagnetic shielding (SE). The SE of 30 wt% PEK-C-OH-g-MWCNTs-COOH/PEEK is higher than the commercially used standard whose value is 22.9 dB (8.2 GHz). Thus, this work provides ideas for the development of thermally conductive functionalized composites.

In this study, the application of methyl methacrylate (MMA) resin as the binder and standard sand as the aggregate has been employed to prepare the repair materials that can be cured in the sub-zero temperature environment. For this purpose, the redox initiation system of benzoyl peroxide (BPO) and N,N-dimethyl-p-toluidine (DMPT) has been used. Subsequently, the influence of initiator and accelerator content on the compressive strength, flexural strength, curing time and other properties of the materials has been revealed. At an ambient temperature of 0 °C, with BPO = 4.5% and DMPT = 3.5%, the developed repair materials can be cured within 31 min, and the 1 h compressive strength reaches 84.6 MPa. At an ambient temperature of −25 °C, with BPO = 4% and DMPT = 5%, the repair materials can be cured within 43 min, with the 1 h compressive strength reaching 53.4 MPa. The materials can be swiftly cured at low-temperature and exhibit excellent mechanical properties, thus, confirming their suitability for extreme environments. Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and other techniques have been employed to characterize the developed materials.