REACTIVE & FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS
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2024
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IF 4.5
Linlin Yu,Ruoyu Chen,Qian Jia
Oily wastewater, especially oil-water emulsions, has caused severe environmental damage. It is urgent to develop a simple, efficient superhydrophobic and superoleophilic material to address this issue. In this work, a multifunctional sponge based on MOF was proposed. The hydroxy-assisted method was employed to prepare MOF-5 with metal coordination centers. Subsequently, octadecylphosphonic acid (OPA) was used to hydrophobically modify MOF-5 to prepare stable and hydrophobic OPA-MOF-5. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with low surface energy was employed as the adhesive, and the hydrophobic OPA-MOF-5 was loaded onto the polyurethane (PU) sponge to obtain the stable superhydrophobic OPA-MOF-5@PDMS@PU with a WCA of 155.9°. The produced modified sponge exhibited high sorption capacity and oil-water separation efficiency, with a sorption capacity of 26.7 (petroleum ether)-85.6 (chloroform) g/g and a separation efficiency of over 99 %. It has also shown satisfactory emulsion purification and flame retardancy capacities.
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环境科学
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材料科学
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高影响因子
ANALYST
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2018
·Vol. 143
·期 14
·3390-3398
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IF 3.864
Jiahong Guo,Zhiwei Bai,Yonglei Lyu,Jikui Wang,Qiang Wang
PDMS-PU (polydimethylsiloxane-polyurethane) sponge decorated with In(OH)3 (indium hydroxide) and BCP (bromocresol purple) particles is shown to be a room-temperature ammonia sensor with high sensitivity and excellent reproducibility; it can accomplish real-time detection and monitoring of ammonia in the surrounding environment. The superhydrophobic and yellowish In(OH)3-BCP-TiO2-based ammonia-responsive (IBT-AR) sponge changes to a purple superhydrophilic one when exposed to ammonia. Notably, after reacting with ammonia, the sponge can recover its original wettability and color after heating in air. The wettability, color and absorption signal of IBT-AR sponge have been measured for sensing ammonia using the water contact angle, macroscopic observation and UV-vis absorption spectrometry, respectively. The minimum ammonia concentrations that can be detected by the sponge wettability, color and absorption signal are 0.5%, 1.4 ppm and 50 ppb, respectively. This kind of sponge with smart wettability and color is a promising new ammonia detector.
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材料科学
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环境科学
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高影响因子
SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2025
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IF 9
Lei Zhu,Hongye Lu,Tianci Huo,Dongxiao Liu,Zechen Yan,Jianqiang Zhang
The frequent oil leakage accidents cause huge loss of natural resources and serious damage to the ecosystem. Although all kinds of modified sponges have been invented to deal with the offshore oil spills, it is difficult to separate high viscosity crude oil and water-in-oil emulsions. To address these challenges, a modified polyurethane (PU) sponge (PDMS/MOF-74@PU) coated by polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with ultra-low surface energy after growing spindle-shaped metal–organic framework structure (MOF-74) on the PU sponge surface was prepared. With the advantages of super-hydrophobic and high porosity, the prepared sponge can selectively and effectively absorb various oils from oil/water mixtures and it has good oil adsorption capacity (18–55 g/g). Meanwhile, the black MOF-74 endows the PDMS/MOF-74@PU photothermal properties for the separation of high viscosity crude oil under the light conditions. As well as, the prepared sponge shows excellent separation performance for the water-in-oil emulsions, the amount of water in the oil could reduce to less than 20 ppm and the separation efficiency could reach as high as 99.9 % after separation. In addition, we used molecular dynamics to verify the mechanism by which PDMS coatings change the surface wettability of materials. With the excellent mechanical property, chemical stability, and thermal stability in various harsh environments, the PDMS/MOF-74@PU have a broad application prospect in the treatment of offshore oil spills.
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材料科学
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环境科学
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化学工程
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高影响因子
COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
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2022
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IF 5.518
Zhiwei He,Hanqing Wu,Zhen Shi,Xing Duan,Shiyu Ma,Jiahao Chen,Zhe Kong,Aqing Chen,Yuping Sun,Xianguo Liu
The discharge of oily wastewaters is one of the major challenges in recent years due to its significant threat to the environment and human health. Herein, we prepared durable superhydrophobic/superoleophilic polyurethane (PU) sponge by decorating UiO-66-(COOH) 2 MOF nanoparticles via self-polymerization of dopamine and chemically modifying with low surface energy materials. Owing to the high mechanical and chemical stability of UiO-66-(COOH) 2 MOF nanoparticles, the MOF-PU sponge exhibits excellent chemical stability, thermal stability and mechanical durability in terms of being immersed in the corrosive mixtures and the boiling water, and the sandpaper abrasion tests, respectively. The MOF-PU sponge can absorb oils (or organic solvents) ranging from 29 to 56 times of its own weight, and shows an excellent separation efficiency for more than 96% even after 15 cycles. Besides, the MOF-PU sponge exhibits excellent anti-icing property with the icing delay time as long as 2040 s at − 15 ± 1 ℃. Thus, the MOF-PU sponge with above excellent properties has a great potential use in the practical application of efficient oil/water separation in the harsh environments.
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材料科学
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环境科学
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化学工程
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高影响因子
Desalination and Water Treatment
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2024
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IF 1
Lujun Wang,Taiheng Zhang,Huiwen Meng,Tao Yan,Guoqing Zhao,Caifeng Li,Feipeng Jiao,Jian Huang
With the aggravation of environmental pollution caused by oil and chemical leakages, oil-water separation has attracted much attention from both academia and industry. In this paper, a cost effective immersion method based on the modification of polyurethane sponge has been developed in the application field of oil/water separation. Octadecanethio and polydopamine were used to grafted onto PU sponge which was roughened by etching method. The morphology, composition and surface properties of prepared Ota-PDA-PU sponges were characterized by various techniques. The characterization results of the modified sponge exhibited rough surface structure, excellent flexibility, and possessed super-hydrophobic characteristic with a high water contact angle (WAC) of 155 ± 1°. The as-prepared sponge displayed high absorption selectivity for different organic solvents and oils, the absorption capacity for sesame oil attained 40 times of its own weight. Meanwhile, the absorption selectivity has no decrease after 10 cycles of absorption-desorption process. More importantly, the as-prepared sponge could be used as a filter for oil-water separation.
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环境科学
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材料科学
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化学工程
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表面工程
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高影响因子
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