The ever-increasing oil spill accidents from industries and the daily life have caused serious
economic loss, destroyed the ecological environment and threatened human health. In order …

Since superwetting surfaces have emerged, on‐demand oil/water separation materials
serve as a new direction for meeting practical needs. This new separation mode uses a …

To mitigate the global water shortage problem, interfacial solar steam generation (ISSG)
technology, an eco-friendly desalination technology, has been actively studied. ISSG …

Membrane separation technology has been considered as the most promising approach for
effectively treating oily wastewater and oil-contaminated water due to its flexibility in …

Solar-driven desalination by using porous evaporators has been deemed to be a
sustainable pathway to obtain freshwater. Despite the emerging anti-scaling evaporators …

To overcome the current scarcity of fresh water sustainably, new technologies will be
required that produce potable water from a range of sources, including seawater and …

The use of aerogels to selectively recover oil from oily wastewater is effective but
challenging. In this study, a new carboxylated carbon nanotube/chitosan aerogel …

As a growing hot research topic, manufacturing smart switchable surfaces has attracted
much attention in the past a few years. The state-of-the-art study on reversibly switchable …

The frequent oil spill accidents and ever-increasing oily wastewater discharged from our
daily life and industries greatly threaten the ecological system as well as human health and …

The oil/water emulsion separation has become a thorny problem worldwide. Membrane
separation based on superwetting materials has attracted immense attention in the domain …