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ACS APPLIED POLYMER MATERIALS
卷 5, 期 2, 页码 1241-1253出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.2c01753
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nanofibrous membrane; TiO2 nano cauliflower; superhydrophobicity; superoleophilicity; water-in-oil emulsion separation; photoinduced hydrophilicity and photocatalytic activity
Water resources have been affected by modern industry and oil spills, prompting the development of advanced technology and materials for oily wastewater treatment. In this study, a TiO2-decorated PVDF membrane was created using a hydrothermal approach. The resulting membrane exhibited excellent surface wettability, photo-catalytic degradability, and robustness, allowing for efficient separation of water-in-oil mixtures and water-in-oil emulsions. Furthermore, the photocatalytic nature of the TiO2 enabled the membrane to degrade pharmaceutical and organic pollutants. This technique has the potential to encourage the development of multifunctional superwetting materials for complex oily wastewater treatment.
Water resources have been significantly affected by the growth of the modern industry as well as regular marine oil spills, which has led people to develop cutting-edge technology or materials for the treatment of oily wastewater. Herein, we successfully decorated the surface of the electrospun nanofibrous (NF) PVDF membrane with a photocatalytic TiO2 nano cauliflower-like structure with a facile, cost-effective hydrothermal approach. Taking advantage of the surface's micro/nano structure, the NF TiO2@PVDF nano cauli-flower-like membrane shows magnificent surface wettability, photo-catalytic degradability, and robustness. It can separate both water-in-oil mixture and surfactant-stabilized water-in-oil emulsions with a high degree of separation efficiency because of the wetting behavior of the membrane. Moreover, taking advantage of the photocatalytic nature of the TiO2, the resultant NF TiO2@PVDF nano cauliflower-like membrane can also be used in degrading pharmaceutical and organic pollutants to address wastewater treatment. Given the distinctive supremacy of the aforementioned modified NF PVDF membrane, the technique can encourage the widespread development of multifunctional superwetting materials presenting an appealing potential for complex oily wastewater treatment.
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