Aerogels meet phase change materials: fundamentals, advances, and beyond

P Liu, X Chen, Y Li, P Cheng, Z Tang, J Lv, W Aftab… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Benefiting from the inherent properties of ultralight weight, ultrahigh porosity, ultrahigh
specific surface area, adjustable thermal/electrical conductivities, and mechanical flexibility …

Freeze casting: from low‐dimensional building blocks to aligned porous structures—a review of novel materials, methods, and applications

G Shao, DAH Hanaor, X Shen, A Gurlo - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Freeze casting, also known as ice templating, is a particularly versatile technique that has
been applied extensively for the fabrication of well‐controlled biomimetic porous materials …

Lightweight, fire‐retardant, and anti‐compressed honeycombed‐like carbon aerogels for thermal management and high‐efficiency electromagnetic absorbing …

J Xu, X Zhang, Z Zhao, H Hu, B Li, C Zhu, X Zhang… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ordered porous carbon materials (PCMs) have potential applications in various fields due to
their low mass densities and porous features. However, it yet remains extremely challenging …

Recent advances in carbon nanomaterial-based adsorbents for water purification

R Gusain, N Kumar, SS Ray - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Deterioration of water quality and the unavailability of drinkable water are pressing
challenges worldwide. Removal of toxic organic and inorganic pollutants from water is …

Electrochemically reduced graphene oxide: Preparation, composites, and applications

J Bai, W Hong, H Bai - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
The reduction of graphene oxide is one of the most important methods for the preparation of
large-scale, high-quality, and low-cost graphene. Among various reduction methods, the …

[HTML][HTML] A review of bio-based materials for oil spill treatment

B Doshi, M Sillanpää, S Kalliola - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Being cost-effective, synthetic materials were initially used abundantly for the removal of oil.
Gradually, however, awareness of the use of dispersants like Corexit, which makes water …

Environmental performance of graphene-based 3D macrostructures

N Yousefi, X Lu, M Elimelech, N Tufenkji - Nature nanotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Three-dimensional macrostructures (3DMs) of graphene and graphene oxide are
being developed for fast and efficient removal of contaminants from water and air. The large …

Ultralight, highly compressible and fire-retardant graphene aerogel with self-adjustable electromagnetic wave absorption

Z Wang, R Wei, J Gu, H Liu, C Liu, C Luo, J Kong… - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Macroscopic three-dimensional (3D) free-standing porous all-graphene aerogel
with ultralight density and high compressibility is successfully fabricated through a mild in …

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 …

Recent development of advanced materials with special wettability for selective oil/water separation

Q Ma, H Cheng, AG Fane, R Wang, H Zhang - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing number of oil spill accidents have a catastrophic impact on our aquatic
environment. Recently, special wettable materials used for the oil/water separation have …