Superhydrophobic and Superoleophilic Micro-Wrinkled Reduced Graphene Oxide as a Highly Portable and Recyclable Oil Sorbent

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 9977-9985

  Feng, Chunfang ^a   Yi, Zhifeng ^a   She, Fenghua ^a   Gao, Weimin ^a   Peng, Zheng ^a,b   Garvey, Christopher J ^c   Dumée, Ludovic F ^a   Kong, Lingxue ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

chemical remediation; oil sorption; superhydrophobic; textured graphene; uperoleophilic; wrinkled reduced graphene oxide

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; HYDROPHOBICITY; OIL SPILLS; OXIDE FILMS; SORPTION;

CANDIDATE MATERIALS; GRAPHENE OXIDE FILMS; OIL SORPTION; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SORPTION PERFORMANCE; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; UPEROLEOPHILIC; WATER CONTACT ANGLE;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84966270126     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01648     Document Type: Article

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