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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
卷 305, 期 1, 页码 124-132出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2006.09.025
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oil spill clean-up; elastic superhydrophobic aerogels; porous materials; absorption of organic liquids; superhydrophobicity
The experimental results of the studies on the absorption and desorption of organic liquids in elastic superhydrophobic silica aerogels, are reported. The elastic superhydrophobic aerogels were prepared using methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS) precursor by a two-step sot-gel process followed by supercritical drying. Monolithic superhydrophobic silica aerogels were used as the absorbents. In all, four alkanes, three aromatic compounds, four alcohols and three oils were used. The absorption property of the aerogel was quantified by the mass and moles of the organic liquid absorbed by unit mass of the aerogel. The superhydrophobic aerogels showed a very high uptake capacity and high rate of uptake. The desorption of solvents and oils was studied by maintaining the as-absorbed aerogel samples at various temperatures and weighing them at regular time intervals until all the absorbed liquid got totally desorbed. This was verified by measuring the weights of the aerogel samples before and after desorption. The transmission electron micrograph observations showed that the aerogel structure was not much affected by the solvent absorption, while the oil absorption led to the shrinkage resulting in a dense structure after the desorption. In all the cases, the aerogels retained hydrophobicity and could be re-used as absorbents. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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