Thermal and magnetic dual-responsive switchable device with superhydrophilicity/underwater superoleophobicity and excellent targeted oil–water separation performance
Congcong Li
A , Huixia Feng A * , Furong Tao B , Tiantian Yang A , Nali Chen A and Baiyi Chen C *
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A School of Petrochemical Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, PR China.
B School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, PR China.
C Xiamen Key Laboratory for Marine Corrosion and Smart Prevention Materials, School of Marine Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen, 361021, PR China.
Australian Journal of Chemistry 75(12) 983-992 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH22160
Submitted: 21 July 2022 Accepted: 25 August 2022 Published: 22 December 2022
© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing.
Abstract
In view of the increasingly serious problem of oil–water separation, it is a convenient and practical method to introduce a hydrogel coating on the surface of materials to make super-wetting materials. Nowadays, researchers of super-wetting materials pay more attention to the research and development of responsive materials. Here, a thermal and magnetic dual-responsive superhydrophilicity/underwater superoleophobicity switchable device (Fe3O4@PNIPAM-Cu) was simply fabricated using the Fe3O4 nanoparticles, poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM) hydrogel as the functional coating and copper foam as the skeleton through a one-step solution immersion method. The separation efficiency of the benzene-water mixture of this dual-responsive device can reach up to 99.98%. Even after 10 separation cycles, it maintained an efficiency of more than 99.90%. At temperatures above ~34°C, the device can stop oil–water separation. The experiments presented here demonstrate this dual-responsive device possesses excellent superhydrophilicity/underwater superoleophobicity, thermal-responsive property and magnetic navigation function.
Keywords: dual-response, hydrogel coating, magnetic navigation, oil–water separation, superhydrophilic/underwater superoleophobic, switchable device, thermal-responsive.
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