Rational Design of Superhydrophilic/Superoleophobic Surfaces for Oil-Water Separation via Thiol-Acrylate Photopolymerization.
ACS Omega
; 3(8): 10278-10285, 2018 Aug 31.
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ABSTRACT
We report a simple, rapid, and scalable strategy to fabricate surfaces exhibiting in-air superoleophobic/superhydrophilic wetting via sequential spray deposition and photopolymerization of nanoparticle-laden thiol-acrylate resins comprising both hydrophilic and oleophobic chemical constituents. The combination of spray deposition with nanoparticles provides hierarchical surface morphologies with both micro- and nanoscale roughness. Mapping the wetting behavior as a function of resin composition using high- and low-surface-tension liquid probes enabled facile identification of coatings that exhibit a range of wetting behavior, including superhydrophilic/superoleophilic, superhydrophobic/superoleophobic, and in-air superhydrophilic/superoleophobic wetting. In-air superhydrophilic/superoleophobic wetting was realized by a dynamic rearrangement of the interface to expose a greater fraction of hydrophilic moieties in response to contact with water. We show that these in-air superoleophobic/superhydrophilic coatings deposited onto porous supports enable separation of model oil-water emulsions with separation efficiencies up to 99.9% with 699 L·m-2 h-1 permeate flux when the superhydrophilic/superoleophobic coatings are paired with 0.45 µm nylon membrane supports.
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ACS Omega
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2018
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Estados Unidos