Approaches to design a surface with tunable wettability: a review on surface properties

CG Jothi Prakash, R Prasanth - Journal of Materials Science, 2021 - Springer
Due to the wide application prospects in energy harvesting, conversion, and emission
control technology, wettability has gathered momentum in recent years. Surface wettability …

Recent progress on biodegradable tissue engineering scaffolds prepared by thermally-induced phase separation (Tips)

R Zeinali, LJ Del Valle, J Torras, J Puiggali - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Porous biodegradable scaffolds provide a physical substrate for cells allowing them to
attach, proliferate and guide the formation of new tissues. A variety of techniques have been …

A review of thermoplastic polymer foams for functional applications

G Wu, P Xie, H Yang, K Dang, Y Xu, M Sain… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Springer
Recently, functional applications of thermoplastic foams have received extensive attention
from the research and materials communities, focusing on their various applications, key …

Biodegradable polymers: a cure for the planet, but a long way to go

GZ Yin, XM Yang - Journal of Polymer Research, 2020 - Springer
Nowadays, vigorously researching and developing biodegradable materials is an effective
way to solve the problem of white pollution. As far as we know, systematic research in …

Freely switchable super-hydrophobicity and super-hydrophilicity of sponge-like poly (vinylidene fluoride) porous fibers for highly efficient oil/water separation

X Liao, D Sun, S Cao, N Zhang, T Huang, Y Lei… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highly efficient oil/water separation ability is a prerequisite for the actual application of the
membranes in oily sewage treatment, which is closely related to the surface feature and the …

Going beyond cellulose and chitosan: synthetic biodegradable membranes for drinking water, wastewater, and oil–water remediation

R Sen Gupta, PK Samantaray, S Bose - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Membrane technology is an efficient way to purify water, but it generates non-biodegradable
biohazardous waste. This waste ends up in landfills, incinerators, or microplastics …

Bio-inspired lightweight polypropylene foams with tunable hierarchical tubular porous structure and its application for oil-water separation

P Huang, F Wu, B Shen, X Ma, Y Zhao, M Wu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Inspired by nature, the biomimetic polypropylene (PP) foams with tunable hollow tubular
structure, hierarchical porous structure and rough inner surface characteristics were …

Superhydrophobic MOFs decorated on hierarchically micro/nanofibrous membranes for high-performance emulsified oily wastewater separation and cationic dyes …

T Ying, J Su, Y Jiang, L Ni, X Jiang, Q Ke… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Emulsified oily wastewater from dye production chemical plants is one of the most serious
components of wastewater treatment. To develop an effective strategy that can not only …

The influence of hydroxyapatite content on properties of poly (L-lactide)/hydroxyapatite porous scaffolds obtained using thermal induced phase separation technique

K Szustakiewicz, M Gazińska, B Kryszak… - European Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the research we obtained porous scaffolds based on poly (L-lactide) and synthetic
hydroxyapatite (HA) using thermal induced phase separation technique (TIPS) supported by …

Super-hydrophobic poly (lactic acid) by controlling the hierarchical structure and polymorphic transformation

X Sun, S Yang, B Xue, K Huo, X Li, Y Tian… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Focus on the design and execution of super-hydrophobic strategies, the phase control
methodology, that is, solvent-volatilization and crystallization induced phase separation at …