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23-03-2021 | Original Research

Superhydrophobic corn straw as a versatile platform for oil/water separation

Authors: Ting Xu, Zhongshuai Gao, Yuyu Jia, Xiao Miao, Xiaotao Zhu, Jingwei Lu, Bo Wang, Yuanming Song, Guina Ren, Xiangming Li

Published in: Cellulose | Issue 8/2021

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Development of advanced oil/water separation materials with durability, versatility, and cost-efficiency in a green manner is highly desired yet still challenging. Herein, to address this challenge, we fabricated an advanced platform for oil/water separation using natural corn straw as a raw material. Superhydrophobic corn straw (SHCS) blocks and filter paper with deposited SHCS powder were fabricated by one-step immersion processes that were simple and cost-efficient. The resulting corn straw-based materials kept their superhydrophobicity after immersing in oil, hand-bending test, abrasion with sandpaper, and even 120 h of UV irradiation. The SHCS block was used as an oil sorbent scaffold to absorb oils from oil/water mixtures selectively; while the SHCS powder deposited filter paper was demonstrated as a membrane to separate oil/water mixtures efficiently even in acidic, alkaline, salty, and high-temperature conditions (more than 80 °C). Importantly, these SHCS-based materials retained their high separation efficiency even after 10 cycles of oil/water separation.

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Superhydrophobic corn straw that can be used as a versatile platform for oil/water separation was fabricated.

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Title: Superhydrophobic corn straw as a versatile platform for oil/water separation
Authors: Ting Xu
Zhongshuai Gao
Yuyu Jia
Xiao Miao
Xiaotao Zhu
Jingwei Lu
Bo Wang
Yuanming Song
Guina Ren
Xiangming Li
Publication date: 23-03-2021
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Cellulose / Issue 8/2021
Print ISSN: 0969-0239
Electronic ISSN: 1572-882X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-021-03803-z

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