Advanced materials with special wettability toward intelligent oily wastewater remediation

W Zheng, J Huang, S Li, M Ge, L Teng… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Clean water resources are essential to our human society. Oil leakage has caused water
contamination, which leads to serious shortage of clean water, environmental deterioration …

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 …

Oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions formation and demulsification

AM Sousa, MJ Pereira, HA Matos - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the petroleum industry, oil and water emulsions are frequent, not only in oilfield operations
but also during the transportation and refining processes. Once depicting emulsion …

One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of Nitrogen-doped graphene as high-performance anode materials for lithium ion batteries

Z Xing, Z Ju, Y Zhao, J Wan, Y Zhu, Y Qiang, Y Qian - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Nitrogen-doped (N-doped) graphene has been prepared by a simple one-step
hydrothermal approach using hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA) as single carbon and …

3D carbon materials for efficient oxygen and hydrogen electrocatalysis

AB Jorge, R Jervis, AP Periasamy… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sustainable energy production at an acceptable cost is key for its widespread application. At
present, noble metals and metal oxides are the most widely used for electrocatalysis, but …

A low-cost non-explosive synthesis of graphene oxide for scalable applications

P Ranjan, S Agrawal, A Sinha, TR Rao… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
A low cost, non-explosive process for the synthesis of graphene oxide (GO) is demonstrated.
Using suitable choice of reaction parameters including temperature and time, this recipe …

Anti-fouling TiO2 nanowires membrane for oil/water separation: Synergetic effects of wettability and pore size

Z Pan, S Cao, J Li, Z Du, F Cheng - Journal of Membrane Science, 2019 - Elsevier
TiO 2 nanowires (NWs) membranes with varied wettability ranging from superhydrophilic to
superhydrophobic have been facile fabricated via dip-coating for oil/water separation …

Three-dimensional nanostructured graphene: synthesis and energy, environmental and biomedical applications

K Olszowska, J Pang, PS Wrobel, L Zhao, HQ Ta, Z Liu… - Synthetic Metals, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) nanostructured graphene can be used as a replacement or
enrichment material. This review presents the types of 3D graphene developed thus far, for …

Advances in carbon nanostructures and nanocellulose as additives for efficient drilling fluids: trends and future perspective—a review

A Rana, I Khan, TA Saleh - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
The continuously growing universal demand for energy and declining production is
fascinating the research community to invent novel technologies. The oil and gas industry is …

Review of superoleophobic surfaces: Evaluation, fabrication methods, and industrial applications

S Ghaffari, M Aliofkhazraei, GB Darband, A Zakeri… - Surfaces and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nowadays, superoleophobic surfaces are considered as an innovative solution in many
industries due to their various applications and numerous ways of fabrications, all of which …