Journal
CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 232, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.115807
Keywords
Switchable wettability; pH-responsiveness; Superhydrophobicity; Superhydrophilicity; Oil/water separation
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Funding
- Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program [J18KZ004]
- Young Doctoral Cooperation Fund of Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) [2018BSHZ0014]
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Intelligent responsive materials with switchable wettability surfaces are of great importance in the field of oil/water separation. Here, a distinctive pH-responsive bio-based oil/water separation material was prepared. A low-cost titanium dioxide (TiO2) and environmentally friendly chitosan (CS) were used to combine with stearic acid (SA) to form the superhydrophobic TiO2@SA/CS coating. The coated materials (cotton fabric, sponge and filter paper) can be converted from superhydrophobicity to superhydrophilicity under ammonia treatment, and the superhydrophobicity can be restored again after heating treatment. The stimuli-responsive surface of the material was applied for the separation of oil/water/oil ternary mixtures and for the effective separation of various surfactant-stabilized water-in-oil emulsions and oil-in-water emulsions before and after wettability conversion. These results may provide a new prospect for the development of intelligent responsive oil/water separation materials with controllable wettability.
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