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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep45065
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- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institution
- Jiangsu advanced welding technology
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51402132, 51309125]
- Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [BK2012279]
- Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province [2015-XCL-028]
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The world faces severe environmental, human and ecological problems when major oil spills and organic discharges are released into the environment. And so it is imperative to develop tools and high performance innovative materials that can efficiently absorb these organic discharges. Furthermore, green, facile methods to produce these advanced materials are also needed. In this paper, we demonstrate a novel porous supersponge based on melamine coated with hBN. This superhydrophobic sponge (with a contact angle >150 degrees) exhibits excellent absorption performance for oils and organic solvents, including good selectivity, high capacity (up to 175 g center dot g(-1)) and extraordinary recyclability (less than 20% decline after 30 cycles of absorption/squeezing). The synthetic procedure required only ultrasonication and immersion of the sponge in aqueous hBN solution, being a green, cost-effective and scalable production methodology. By virtue of the straightforward and cost-effective fabrication method, along with the excellent absorption performance, hBN-decorated sponges have great promise for real world practical application in the field of oil spills and organic leakage cleanup.
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