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Capillary-driven spontaneous oil/water separation by superwettable twines

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NANOSCALE
Volume 7, Issue 31, Pages 13164-13167

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5nr03670d

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Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [21475009, 21175140, 21425314, 21434009, 21421061]
  2. National Research Fund for Fundamental Key Projects [2012CB933800]
  3. Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [KJZD-EW-M01]
  4. National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) [2013AA032203]
  5. MOST [2013YQ190467]
  6. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [FRF-TP-14-065A2]
  7. Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project [YETP0424]

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A superwettable twine showing excellent absorption and self-removal capacity of oil and water from oil/water mixtures is reported. Superwettable materials are fabricated by simple modification of commercial twines with plasma and hydrophobic silica nanoparticles, respectively. We show that the absorption and self-transportation of oil and water are driven by the capillary force resulting from the microgaps and microgrooves on twines.

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