Robust Thermoresponsive Polymer Composite Membrane with Switchable Superhydrophilicity and Superhydrophobicity for Efficient Oil-Water Separation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 906-914

  Ou, Ranwen ^a   Wei, Jingf ^a   Jiang, Lei ^a,b   Simon, George P ^a   Wang, Huanting ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; EFFICIENCY; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; HYDROGELS; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANES; SEPARATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HIGH SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; OIL WATER SEPARATION; OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS; POLY(N-ISOPROPYL ACRYLAMIDE) (PNIPAM); SUPER-HYDROPHILICITY; THERMORESPONSIVE POLYMER; WATER IN OIL EMULSIONS;

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES;

POLY(N ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE); POLYURETHAN; WATER OIL CREAM; ACRYLAMIDE DERIVATIVE; ACRYLIC ACID RESIN; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; HYDROGEL; N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE; OIL; POLY-N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE; POLYMER; WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MEMBRANE; CONTACT ANGLE; COOLING; HEATING; HYDROGEL; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE; POLYMERIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SUPERHYDROPHILICITY; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; WETTABILITY; YOUNG MODULUS; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY;

ACRYLAMIDES; ACRYLIC RESINS; HYDROGEL; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; OILS; POLYMERS; POLYURETHANES; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84955310180     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03418     Document Type: Article

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