Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 13, Issue 39, Pages 47302-47312Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c15064
Keywords
MXene; Ti3C2Tx; melamine sponge; hydrophobic; photothermal; oil purification
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61805147, 52103316]
- Large Instruments Open Foundation of Nantong University [KFJN2112, KFJN2119, KFJN2127]
- Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province [SJCX21_1450]
- Science and Technology Innovation Commission of Shenzhen [JCYJ20180305125141661]
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The study introduced a novel MXene-based sponge with excellent hydrophobicity and high photothermal efficiency, which can efficiently absorb oil and generate heat under low MXene loading. This versatile material shows great potential in oil/water separation and photo-driven waste oil collection and purification applications.
Photothermally assisted superhydrophobic sponges play a vital role in the fields of waste oil collection, oil purification, and solar desalination. However, the widely reported superhydrophobic sponges with photothermal efficiency usually suffer from a post-/premodification process of harmful materials, high loading content of photothermal agents, and low photothermal efficiency. Herein, an MXene-based melamine sponge (MS) was facilely fabricated by hydrogen bonding interaction between the amino groups on the skeleton of the MS and the polar groups on the surface of the as-exfoliated 2D MXene Ti3C2Tx nanosheets. Interestingly, the as-fabricated MXene sponge exhibits excellent hydrophobicity and high photothermal efficiency under an extremely low loading of MXene Ti3C2Tx nanosheets (0.1 wt %). Moreover, the highly hydrophobic sponge also possesses a high oil absorption capacity as high as 176 times of its own weight and keeps stable under multiple absorption/desorption cycling tests. Surprisingly, the surface temperature of the MXene sponge can quickly reach 47 degrees C under illumination and has good reproducibility during multiple light on/off cycles. The excellent photothermal performance and large oil absorption capacity of the MXene sponge endow the highly hydrophobic sponge with fast solvent evaporation speed and high-purity waste oil collection (99.7 wt % dichloromethane) under illumination, which holds great promise for oil/water separation, leaked oil collection, and photo-driven waste oil collection and purification applications. It is envisioned that this work can open a new strategy for new designs of 3D multifunctional sponges for high-performance waste oil collection and purification.
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