Smart and multifunctional materials based on electroactive poly (vinylidene fluoride): recent advances and opportunities in sensors, actuators, energy, environmental …

CM Costa, VF Cardoso, P Martins, DM Correia… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
From scientific and technological points of view, poly (vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, is one of
the most exciting polymers due to its overall physicochemical characteristics. This polymer …

Recent trends of heavy metal removal from water/wastewater by membrane technologies

N Abdullah, N Yusof, WJ Lau, J Jaafar… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A literature search revealed a lack of up-to-date and detailed review articles on the use of
membrane technologies for heavy metal removal. Thus, this article provides a …

Electroactive poly (vinylidene fluoride)-based structures for advanced applications

C Ribeiro, CM Costa, DM Correia, J Nunes-Pereira… - Nature protocols, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF) and its copolymers are the polymers with the
highest dielectric constants and electroactive responses, including piezoelectric, pyroelectric …

[HTML][HTML] Fluorinated polymers as smart materials for advanced biomedical applications

VF Cardoso, DM Correia, C Ribeiro, MM Fernandes… - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Fluorinated polymers constitute a unique class of materials that exhibit a combination of
suitable properties for a wide range of applications, which mainly arise from their …

Development of hydrophilic microporous PES ultrafiltration membrane containing CuO nanoparticles with improved antifouling and separation performance

N Nasrollahi, S Aber, V Vatanpour… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel copper oxide (CuO)/polyethersulfone (PES) microporous ultrafiltration membrane
was fabricated by the non-solvent induced phase inversion. A facile and single step method …

The pH dependent surface charging and points of zero charge. VII. Update

M Kosmulski - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
The pristine points of zero charge (PZC) and isoelectric points (IEP) of metal oxides and IEP
of other materials from the recent literature, and a few older results (overlooked in previous …

Ionic liquid cation size-dependent electromechanical response of ionic liquid/poly (vinylidene fluoride)-based soft actuators

DM Correia, JC Barbosa, CM Costa… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
This work reports on the development of ionic liquid (IL)/poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF)
actuator composites. ILs sharing the same anion (bis (trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide,[TFSI]−) …

Adsorption behavior of cationic surfactant onto aluminum hydroxide nanoparticles and application in lindane removal

TH Nguyen, TTL Nguyen, TC Nguyen, TH Doan… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study investigates adsorption behavior of cationic surfactant,
cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) on synthesized alpha aluminum hydroxide …

[HTML][HTML] Testing of chemically activated cellulose fibers as adsorbents for treatment of arsenic contaminated water

M Ciopec, G Biliuta, A Negrea, N Duțeanu, S Coseri… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Exposure to different arsenic concentrations (higher than 10 μg/L), either due to the direct
consumption of contaminated drinking water or indirectly by using contaminated food is …

Reusable composite membranes for highly efficient chromium removal from real water matrixes

JM Queirós, H Salazar, A Valverde, G Botelho… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural or industrial hexavalent chromium water pollution continues to be a worldwide
unresolved threat. Today, there is intense research on new active and cost-effective …