Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Infused-liquid-switchable porous nanofibrous membranes for multiphase liquid separation

  • Yang Wang,
  • Jiancheng Di,
  • Li Wang,
  • Xu Li,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Baixian Wang,
  • Ye Tian,
  • Lei Jiang,
  • Jihong Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00474-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Separating immiscible liquids with small surface energy differences remains a challenge. Here, the authors develop a polarity-based strategy for the separation of multiphase mixtures of immiscible liquids, even those with surface energy differences as small as 2 mJ m-2.