%0 Journal Article
%T A Robust Cotton Textile-Based Material for High-Flux Oil每Water Separation
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%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b01108
%X PDMS-based materials have been extensively studied in oil每water separation. However, their successful application is commonly limited by low efficiency, vulnerability to acid/alkali, complex processing procedures, incapability for emulsion separation, etc. Here, a highly durable and robust separation material is developed by coating PDMS-based copolymers on cotton textiles with a facile sol每gel approach. Solely driven by gravity, this new material not only can enable effective separation of oil每water mixture with a flux as high as ‵7500 L m每2 h每1 but also can separate surfactant-stabilized water-in-oil emulsion. Moreover, it remains fully functional even in the environments with high concentrations of acid, alkali, or salt. This novel and versatile strategy holds great promise to be widely used in practical applications of oil每water separation, including oil/chemical spill accidents and industrial sewage emission
%U https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b01108