Zero-Material Cost Production of Soil-Coated Fabrics with Underwater Superoleophobicity for Antifouling Oil/Water Separation
Maohui Li,
Fangfang Li,
Cheng Zhen,
Panpan Fu,
Shaolin Yang,
Youjun Lu
Affiliations
Maohui Li
School of Materials Science and Engineering, International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Industrial Waste Recycling and Advanced Materials, North Minzu University, Yinchuan 750021, China
Fangfang Li
School of Materials Science and Engineering, International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Industrial Waste Recycling and Advanced Materials, North Minzu University, Yinchuan 750021, China
Cheng Zhen
School of Materials Science and Engineering, International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Industrial Waste Recycling and Advanced Materials, North Minzu University, Yinchuan 750021, China
Panpan Fu
School of Materials Science and Engineering, International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Industrial Waste Recycling and Advanced Materials, North Minzu University, Yinchuan 750021, China
Shaolin Yang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Industrial Waste Recycling and Advanced Materials, North Minzu University, Yinchuan 750021, China
Youjun Lu
School of Materials Science and Engineering, International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Industrial Waste Recycling and Advanced Materials, North Minzu University, Yinchuan 750021, China
Soil-coated fabrics were fabricated by scrape-coating of soil slurry onto cotton fabrics. The raw materials, soil, and cotton fabrics were, respectively, obtained from farmland and waste bed sheets, making the method a zero-material cost way to produce superwetting membrane. The superhydrophilic/underwater superoleophobic soil-coated fabrics exhibit high efficiency (>99%), ultra-high flux (~45,000 L m−2 h−1), and excellent antifouling behavior for separating water from various oils driven by gravity. The simple fabrication and superior performance suggest that the soil-coated fabric could be a promising candidate as a filtration membrane for practical applications in industrial oily wastewater and oil spill treatments.
