Carbon aerogel from winter melon for highly efficient and recyclable oils and organic solvents absorption

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1492-1497

  Li, Yuan Qing ^a   Samad, Yarjan Abdul ^a   Polychronopoulou, Kyriaki ^a   Alhassan, Saeed M ^a   Liao, Kin ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Absorption; Biomass; Carbon aerogel; Recyclable; Water oil separation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AEROGELS; BIOMASS; DISTILLATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; RECOVERY; SOLVENTS;

ABSORBENT MATERIALS; ABSORPTION CAPACITY; CARBON AEROGELS; PREPARATION PROCESS; RECYCLABLE; SELECTIVE ABSORPTION; WATER CONTACT ANGLE; WATER-OIL SEPARATIONS;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 84990864203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc500161b     Document Type: Article

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