Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Magnetic Sawdust as Effective and Recyclable Oil Sorbents
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang 453003, Henan, China
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Materials 2019, 12(20), 3432; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12203432
Received: 19 September 2019 / Revised: 16 October 2019 / Accepted: 17 October 2019 / Published: 20 October 2019
(This article belongs to the Section Materials Chemistry)
In this paper, a novel superhydrophobic magnetic sawdust (SMSD) was fabricated as an oil sorbent. The SMSD was functionalized with Fe3O4 nanoparticles using melamine formaldehyde resin (MFR) as a coupling agent and subsequently hydrophobically-treated with hexadecyltrimethoxysilane (HDTMS). The SMSD showed excellent superhydrophobicity with the water contact angle of 155.3 ± 0.9°. Meanwhile it had remarkable environmental durability, long-term stability, and mechanical durable properties. Taking advantage of its magnetic characteristics, the SMSD could be easily controlled to absorb oil to separate oil–water mixtures with high oil absorption capacity and good reusability. Moreover, the emulsion was successfully separated by SMSD, including water-in-oil and oil-in-water emulsions. This study developed an effective oil absorbent, which was low cost and environmentally-friendly.
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Keywords:
sawdust; superhydrophobic; magnetic; oil absorption; emulsion separation
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Fan, S.; Pei, S.; Shen, T.; Xu, G.; Li, Y.; Fan, W. Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Magnetic Sawdust as Effective and Recyclable Oil Sorbents. Materials 2019, 12, 3432. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12203432
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Fan S, Pei S, Shen T, Xu G, Li Y, Fan W. Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Magnetic Sawdust as Effective and Recyclable Oil Sorbents. Materials. 2019; 12(20):3432. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12203432
Chicago/Turabian StyleFan, Shumin; Pei, Shuai; Shen, Tianyu; Xu, Guangri; Li, Yuanchao; Fan, Wenxiu. 2019. "Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Magnetic Sawdust as Effective and Recyclable Oil Sorbents" Materials 12, no. 20: 3432. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12203432
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