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  • Constructing Environmental-...
    Cheng, Xiquan; Ye, Yanyan; Li, Zhixing; Chen, Xueying; Bai, Qing; Wang, Kai; Zhang, Yingjie; Drioli, Enrico; Ma, Jun

    ACS nano, 03/2022, Letnik: 16, Številka: 3
    Journal Article

    Oil leakage is a global environmental issue and happens frequently, resulting in a waste of oil resources and even threatening the safety of marine creatures and humans. Because of unidirectional oil transportation performance, “oil-diode” Janus membranes have attracted lots of attention for oil/water separation. However, the hydrophobic side of traditional “oil-diode” Janus membrane is completely hydrophobic, resulting in an easy permeation of oil, which hampers light oil recycling. Herein, we provide a facile approach to develop “oil-diode” Janus membranes with the special wettable structure for fast oil refining. The material characteristics and surface wettability of the membranes that generate superimposed efforts are vital to fabricate “oil-diode” Janus membranes. Interestingly, the manufactured membranes exhibit extra-high oil intrusion pressure up to 12 kPa and present high permeance of about 2993 L m–2 h–1 bar–1 in separating stable water-in-oil emulsion containing surfactant and separation efficiency up to 99.6%, thereby showing promising potential in oil recovery and refining.