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Separations, Volume 11, Issue 4

April 2024 - 40 articles

Cover Story: Oil pollution, resulting from oil spills and large discharges of oily wastewater, poses a significant threat to the global ecological and economic environment. Recently, superwetting materials manufactured via ultrafast lasers for oil–water separation have garnered widespread attention due to their easy preparation strategies and excellent separation properties. This review makes progress in systematically discussing and comparing the preparation techniques of the superhydrophobic/superoleophilic, superhydrophilic/superoleophobic, and superamphiphilic or reversible-wettability materials with their corresponding separation performance, serving as a reference for the development of innovative superwetting materials for versatile oil–water separation in complex scenarios using ultrafast laser processing. View this paper
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Articles (40)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,224 Views
27 Pages

The Removal of As(III) Using a Natural Laterite Fixed-Bed Column Intercalated with Activated Carbon: Solving the Clogging Problem to Achieve Better Performance

  • Régie Dimanche Ouedraogo,
  • Corneille Bakouan,
  • Abdoul Karim Sakira,
  • Brahima Sorgho,
  • Boubié Guel,
  • Touridomon Issa Somé,
  • Anne-Lise Hantson,
  • Eric Ziemons,
  • Dominique Mertens and
  • Philippe Hubert
  • + 1 author

Natural laterite fixed-bed columns intercalated with two types of layers (inert materials, such as fine sand and gravel, and adsorbent materials, such as activated carbon prepared from Balanites aegyptiaca (BA-AC)) were used for As(III) removal from...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
18,446 Views
21 Pages

Bioactives in Cocoa: Novel Findings, Health Benefits, and Extraction Techniques

  • Kristina Tušek,
  • Davor Valinger,
  • Tamara Jurina,
  • Tea Sokač Cvetnić,
  • Jasenka Gajdoš Kljusurić and
  • Maja Benković

Theobroma cacao L. seeds, commonly known as cocoa beans, are the foundation for cocoa and chocolate production. Following harvest, these beans undergo a multi-step processing chain including fermentation, drying, roasting, and grinding. This process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,607 Views
21 Pages

A rare medicinal fungus called Taiwanofungus camphoratus gives people resistance to illness. In order to effectively obtain high−quality T. camphoratus mycelia, we added Cymbopogon citratus (lemongrass) water extract (LWE), which was prepared u...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,529 Views
24 Pages

Laser Manufacturing of Superwetting Oil–Water Separation Materials: A Review

  • Wei Xiong,
  • Linfeng Zhu,
  • Ruisong Jiang and
  • Chaolang Chen

The frequent occurrence of oil spills and the massive discharge of oily wastewater pose a significant threat to sustainable and healthy human development. Therefore, it is of importance to effectively separate oil–water mixtures. Inspired by na...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,893 Views
19 Pages

Two aluminum-coated silica adsorbents were evaluated using silica sand and microcrystalline silica as aluminum-oxide-based adsorbents with different crystalline silica base materials. The aluminum coating contained mainly amorphous aluminum oxides fo...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,159 Views
10 Pages

The separation of Li+ and [Bmim]+(1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium) using a cation exchange membrane in an electric field is studied in this work. The effects of the type of cation exchange membrane, current density, total cation concentration, temperatur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,584 Views
15 Pages

Extraction of Copper from Copper Concentrate by Indigenous Association of Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria

  • Arevik Vardanyan,
  • Ruiyong Zhang,
  • Anna Khachatryan,
  • Zaruhi Melkonyan,
  • Arshavir Hovhannisyan,
  • Sabine Willscher,
  • Andreas Kamradt,
  • Manuel Jost,
  • Yimeng Zhang and
  • Can Wang
  • + 1 author

Bioleaching of Cu from the copper concentrate of Armanis gold-bearing polymetallic ore (Armenia) was investigated. The main objective was revealing high active bacteria and their association, as well as optimizing the bioleaching process with their a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,116 Views
25 Pages

The Removal of Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances from Water: A Review on Destructive and Non-Destructive Methods

  • Natalia Malouchi,
  • Stella Chatzimichailidou,
  • Athanasia K. Tolkou,
  • George Z. Kyzas,
  • Loris Calgaro,
  • Antonio Marcomini and
  • Ioannis A. Katsoyiannis

PFAS, or per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, are a broad group of man-made organic compounds that are very persistent, mobile, and tend to bioaccumulate. Their removal from different environmental media is becoming increasingly important because th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,654 Views
15 Pages

Industrial wastewater typically contains many organic and inorganic pollutants and is also contaminated by various microorganisms. Microbial species in industrial wastewater have not been extensively investigated. In this experiment, a Klebsiella pne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,301 Views
18 Pages

The characteristics of iron minerals in cyanidation tailings with a low iron grade were determined via chemical composition analysis, iron phase analysis, and mineral liberation analysis (MLA). The results showed that the cyanidation tailings contain...

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