Oil spill cleanup from sea water by carbon nanotube sponges

Frontiers of Materials Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 170-176

  Zhu, Ke ^a   Shang, Yuan Yuan ^b   Sun, Peng Zhan ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Li, Xin Ming ^a   Wei, Jin Quan ^a   Wang, Kun Lin ^a   Wu, De Hai ^a   Cao, An Yuan ^b   Zhu, Hong Wei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube (CNT); oil spill; sea water; sorption capacity; sponge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878886891     PISSN: 2095025X     EISSN: 20950268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11706-013-0200-1     Document Type: Article

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