@inproceedings{d631bb6821ec4da29e547775a5cb6f7f,
title = "Design of high-Throughput superoleophobic copper meshes for oil-water separation",
abstract = "Advanced materials with desired wettability are extremely important for environmental sustainability, such as oily industrial wastewater treatment and oil spill cleanup. To meet this demand, a scalable nanoengineering approach was developed to fabricate superhydrophilic and underwater superoleophobic inorganic meshes for cross-flow filtration and oil/water separation. The resulting nanostructured copper meshes exhibit superhydrophilicity and underwater superoleophobicity (oil contact angle approaching to 159°). With these meshes, very high values of filtration flux (>900,000 Lh'm2) have been achieved, with ultra-low oil residue in the filtrate (<40 ppm) and long water retention time (more than 1 h). The proposed nanoengineering method paves the way for effective gravity-driven separation of immiscible oil/water mixtures, especially for low-density oil purification.",
author = "Haoran Liu and Bokang Jia and Guanqiu Li and Sumaya Nooralla and Tiejun Zhang",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1557/opl.2015.583",
language = "British English",
series = "Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings",
publisher = "Materials Research Society",
pages = "8--15",
editor = "J. Abelson and C.-G. Granqvist and E. Traversa",
booktitle = "Materials as Tools for Sustainability",
address = "United States",
note = "2014 MRS Fall Meeting ; Conference date: 30-11-2014 Through 05-12-2014",
}
