Cleaning of Oil Fouling with Water Enabled by Zwitterionic Polyelectrolyte Coatings: Overcoming the Imperative Challenge of Oil-Water Separation Membranes

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 9188-9198

  He, Ke ^a,b   Duan, Haoran ^a   Chen, George Y ^a   Liu, Xiaokong ^a   Yang, Wensheng ^b   Wang, Dayang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Jilin University   (China)

Author keywords

oil cleaning; oil spill remediation; oil water separation; polymer brush; self cleaning; thin film; zwitterionic surface

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; COATINGS; FILM PREPARATION; HYDRAULIC FLUIDS; HYDROPHILICITY; MIXTURES; OIL SPILLS; POLYELECTROLYTES; SEPARATION; THIN FILMS; WETTING;

OIL CLEANING; OIL WATER SEPARATION; POLYELECTROLYTE COATINGS; POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYER; POLYMER BRUSHES; SELF CLEANING; SELF-CLEANING COATINGS; SELF-CLEANING EFFECTS;

CLEANING;

EID: 84942279651     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03791     Document Type: Article

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