Highly efficient and flexible electrospun carbon-silica nanofibrous membrane for ultrafast gravity-driven oil-water separation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9393-9401

  Tai, Ming Hang ^a   Gao, Peng ^a   Tan, Benny Yong Liang ^a   Sun, Darren D ^a   Leckie, James O ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanofiber; electrospinning; flexibility; membrane; oil water separation; silica; superoleophilicity

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOFIBERS; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; ELECTROSPINNING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NANOFIBERS; SEPARATION; SILICA; SILICONES; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WETTING;

ELECTROSPUN COMPOSITE; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FLEXIBILITY; NANOFIBROUS MEMBRANES; OIL WATER SEPARATION; SUPEROLEOPHILICITY; THERMAL AND CHEMICAL STABILITIES; WETTING PROPERTY;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 84903549795     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501758c     Document Type: Article

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