A versatile approach to produce superhydrophobic materials used for oil–water separation

Synthesis and oil absorption of biomorphic MgAl Layered Double Oxide/acrylic ester resin by suspension polymerization

“…The root cause of the problem lies in the rapid development of industry and the frequent occurrence of oil spill accidents [1][2][3][4][5]. Therefore, the removal of oil spills or organic contaminants from water surface has been an active research field.…”

One-step fabrication of highly stable, superhydrophobic composites from controllable and low-cost PMHS/TEOS sols for efficient oil cleanup

“…Nevertheless, employed absorbents, including inorganic mineral products [8,9], organic natural products [10,11] and synthetic polymers [12], commonly suffer from certain shortages such as low separation efficiency, insufficient buoyancy, slow biodegradability, poor selectivity and low sorption rate, etc [13]. To this end, it is of practical significance to explore facile, low-cost yet highly efficient approaches to fabricate oil-absorbing materials with excellent selectivity and sorption capacity [14][15][16][17].…”

Designing high-caliber nonwoven filter mats for coalescence filtration of oil/water emulsions

“…Many interesting methods to gain superwettability were innovated [21][22][23]. For example, Jin and Jiang [24] developed superhydrophobic and superoleophilic PVDF membranes for effective separation of water-in-oil emulsions.…”