Porous Janus materials with unique asymmetries and functionality

L Yan, X Yang, Y Zhang, Y Wu, Z Cheng, SB Darling… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Porous Janus materials have attracted widespread attention due to their asymmetry in
wettability, charge, pore size or structure, thermal/electrical conductivity, and chemical …

Superhydrophobic nanohybrid sponges for separation of oil/water mixtures

NY Abu-Thabit, OJ Uwaezuoke, MHA Elella - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The industrial revolution has led to different types of environmental pollution, including
frequent leakage of crude oil to marine waters and the contamination of wastewater with …

Advanced super-hydrophobic polymer-based porous absorbents for the treatment of oil-polluted water

AT Hoang, S Nižetić, XQ Duong, L Rowinski… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The threat of environmental pollution caused by spilled oil is rapidly increasing along with
the expansion of oil exploration, the development of maritime activities and industrial growth …

Tunable negative dielectric properties of magnetic CoFe2O4/graphite-polypyrrole metacomposites

J Guo, Z Chen, ZM El-Bahy, H Liu, HM Abo-Dief… - … Composites and Hybrid …, 2022 - Springer
In this work, the CoFe2O4/graphite-polypyrrole (PPy) metacomposites with negative
dielectric constant were prepared by the surface-initiated-polymerization method. The …

Novel Ti3C2Tx MXene wrapped wood sponges for fast cleanup of crude oil spills by outstanding Joule heating and photothermal effect

PL Wang, C Ma, Q Yuan, T Mai, MG Ma - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Remediation of crude oil spills is a great challenge owing to the poor mobility and high
viscosity of crude oil. Herein, a porous polydimethylsiloxane@ wood sponge/MXene …

Polypyrrole-based composite materials for electromagnetic wave absorption

J Yan, Y Huang, X Liu, XX Zhao, T Li, Y Zhao… - Polymer …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
With the development of electronic communication technology, the issues of electromagnetic
(EM) wave pollution have become increasingly prominent, and the requirements for EM …

“Several birds with one stone” strategy of pH/thermoresponsive flame-retardant/photothermal bactericidal oil-absorbing material for recovering complex spilled oil

Y Chen, J Lin, GAM Mersal, J Zuo, J Li, Q Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although many material designs or strategic methods have been proposed for treating oil
spills and oily wastewater, the complex oily state, dealing with the harsh operating …

Tunable magnetoresistance of core-shell structured polyaniline nanocomposites with 0-, 1-, and 2-dimensional nanocarbons

J Guo, X Li, H Liu, DP Young, G Song, K Song… - … Composites and Hybrid …, 2021 - Springer
Core-shell structured polyaniline (PANI) nanocomposites with tunable magnetoresistance
(MR) were obtained through the facial surface-initiated polymerization method with …

Sorbent-based devices for the removal of spilled oil from water: a review

AT Hoang, XP Nguyen, XQ Duong… - Environmental Science and …, 2021 - Springer
Always, oil spills do cause serious and dire consequences for the environment, nature, and
society that it consumes much time and socio-economic resources to overcome such …

Unravelling intercalation-regulated nanoconfinement for durably ultrafast sieving graphene oxide membranes

J Guo, H Bao, Y Zhang, X Shen, JK Kim, J Ma… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
Graphene oxide (GO) membranes with unique sieving channels composing of galleries in
stacked GO nanosheets, are promising for advanced separations towards environmental …