Advanced sorbents for oil‐spill cleanup: recent advances and future perspectives

J Ge, HY Zhao, HW Zhu, J Huang, LA Shi… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Oil sorbents play a very important part in the remediation processes of oil spills. To enhance
the oil‐sorption properties and simplify the oil‐recovery process, various advanced oil …

Biomimetic super-lyophobic and super-lyophilic materials applied for oil/water separation: a new strategy beyond nature

B Wang, W Liang, Z Guo, W Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Oil spills and industrial organic pollutants have induced severe water pollution and
threatened every species in the ecological system. To deal with oily water, special wettability …

Environmental impacts of oil spills and their remediation by magnetic nanomaterials

H Singh, N Bhardwaj, SK Arya, M Khatri - … nanotechnology, monitoring & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Marine oil spills are one of the major sources of water pollution causing huge environmental
damage and economic destruction. They disturbs the ecological framework of the oceans …

Techniques for determining contact angle and wettability of powders

A Alghunaim, S Kirdponpattara, BZ Newby - Powder Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
This review summarizes some common methods for determining the wettability of powders,
especially the contact angle that a liquid would form on powders. The sessile drop, Wilhelmy …

Recent advancements in silica nanoparticles based technologies for removal of dyes from water

SA Jadhav, HB Garud, AH Patil, GD Patil… - Colloid and Interface …, 2019 - Elsevier
Silica and silica based hybrid nanoparticles are investigated with great interest for the
removal of dyes from water. The presence of surface silanols which can complex the dyes …

A review on polymer-based membranes for gas-liquid membrane contacting processes: Current challenges and future direction

Y Xu, K Goh, R Wang, TH Bae - Separation and Purification Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
The gas–liquid membrane contactor (GLMC) is a promising technology for gas absorption
and stripping with many competitive advantages over conventional contacting processes. At …

Bio-inspired hollow PDMS sponge for enhanced oil–water separation

JH Shin, JH Heo, S Jeon, JH Park, S Kim… - Journal of hazardous …, 2019 - Elsevier
Oil spills from disasters such as the sinking of ships and the discharge of oily wastes cause
serious environmental problems. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) sponges are valuable tools …

Highly enhanced adsorption performance of U (VI) by non-thermal plasma modified magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles

S Duan, X Xu, X Liu, Y Wang, T Hayat, A Alsaedi… - Journal of colloid and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, magnetic Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles (MNP) modified with O-
phosphorylethanolamine (O-PEA) were successfully prepared by non-thermal plasma …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma surface functionalization: A comprehensive review of advances in the quest for bioinstructive materials and interfaces

M Zhianmanesh, A Gilmour, MMM Bilek… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Surface biofunctionalization aims to create cell-instructive surfaces that control the behavior
of cells and modulate cellular interactions by incorporating cell signaling moieties at the …

The effect of hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces on the thermal and atomic behavior of ammonia/copper nanofluid using molecular dynamics simulation

B Liu, I Khalid, I Patra, OR Kuzichkin… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
The formation of hydrophilic (HPI) and hydrophobic (HPO) surfaces on the walls of simulated
aluminum nanochannels (NC) directly affects the thermal behavior and atomic behavior of …