• 文献标题:   Hydrophobic, blocky silica-reduced graphene oxide hybrid sponges as highly efficient and recyclable sorbents
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHAO X, ZHU YL, WANG YZ, LI ZP, SUN YT, ZHAO SF, WU XW, CAO DX
  • 作者关键词:   silicareduced graphene oxide hybrid sponge, atmospheric pressure drying, compressible graphene sponge, hydrophobicity, highly efficient absorption
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0169-4332 EI 1873-5584
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Jinan
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.05.017
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Silica aerogels are prone to be destroyed due to their brittleness and low mechanical properties, which limits their applications. To break the unfavorable situation, we presented a scalable and facile approach to assemble blocky silica-reduced graphene oxide (SiO2-rGO) hybrid sponges by atmospheric pressure drying technique. Briefly, ungelled silica solution from two-step sol-gel of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS), was incorporated into compressible graphene sponge (CGS). Different silicon concentration ratios had great influence on the performance of hybrid sponges. When V-TEOS: V-ethanol was fixed at 1:15, the sample had good flexibility and could absorb 8.5-10.2 times its own mass of solvents, but the adsorption efficiency slightly decreased with the increase of the number of experiments. When V-TEOS: V-ethanol was fixed at 4:7, the SiO2-rGO hybrid sponges exhibited unbroken shape, low volume shrinkage (24%), large specific surface area (803.351 m(2)/g), and high mass retention (83.64%) at 790 degrees C of thermal treatment. Moreover, they could support approximately 146 times their weight without structural damage, and possess excellent hydro-phobicity with 129 +/- 1 degrees of water contact angle. These superior properties enable SiO2-rGO hybrid sponges to exhibit highly efficient absorption of oils and toxic solvents, to be regenerated (10 times) with the full release of adsorbates by heat treatment.