“…A representative case is the explosion at British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon oil rig in 2010, which resulted in the loss of life and property, as well as the spillage of huge amounts of oil into the ocean [6]. To date, various materials and approaches have been adopted to remove spilled oil from water bodies, including physical diffusion [7], activated carbon [8], oil containment booms [9], exfoliated graphite [10], waste barley straw [11,12] and membranes [13,14]. Nevertheless, these traditional techniques have certain deficiencies, such as being time-consuming, economically infeasible, environmentally damaging and non-renewable.…”