• 文献标题:   The coating and reduction of graphene oxide on meshes with inverse wettability for continuous water/oil separation
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LU H, SHA SM, YANG SL, WU JD, MA JF, HOU CP, SHENG ZL
  • 作者关键词:   water/oil separation, graphene, stainless steel mesh, inverse wettability, scrape coating
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0169-4332 EI 1873-5584
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  • 被引频次:   28
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147948
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

We report a mild, inexpensive, environment-friendly method to fabricate graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (RGO) coated meshes with superhydrophilicity/underwater superoleophobicity and superhydrophobicity/superoleophilicity through scrape coating of GO nanosheets onto stainless steel mesh and electrochemical reduction of the GO coated mesh, respectively. The GO coated meshes exhibit high efficiency for unidirectional separation of mixtures of water and various light oils, while the RGO coated meshes show excellent capability of separating various heavy oils from water. Both types of meshes could maintain their original wettability in harsh environments, and demonstrate high efficiency and recyclability for the separation of water/ oil mixtures containing boiling water, acid and salt. In addition, a T-shaped bidirectional device was assembled by fixing the two meshes with inverse wettability at the both horizontal ends of a T-tube, which can achieve continuous high-efficiency separation of various mixtures of water and oil regardless of their density relationship.