Hollow carbon fibers derived from natural cotton as effective sorbents for oil spill cleanup

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 18251-18261

  Wang, Bin ^a   Karthikeyan, Rengasamy ^a   Lu, Xiao Ying ^a   Xuan, Jin ^a,b   Leung, Michael K H ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; CONTACT-ANGLE MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-CAPACITY; OIL ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; OIL SORPTION; POROUS STRUCTURES; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; TUBULAR STRUCTURES;

ADSORPTION; COTTON; COTTON FIBERS; OIL SPILLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SORBENTS;

ADSORPTION; COTTON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SORBENTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84891451533     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie402371n     Document Type: Article

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