State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China.
Langmuir. 2017 Apr 18;33(15):3702-3710. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00658. Epub 2017 Apr 3.
Oil-water separation is of great importance for the treatment of oily wastewater, including immiscible light/heavy oil-water mixtures, oil-in-water, or water-in-oil emulsions. Recently, interfacial materials (especially filtration membranes) with special wettability have been broadly developed to solve the environmental problems by virtue of their advantages in energy saving, high flux, and good selectivity. However, the given wetting property (superhydrophilicity or superhydrophobicity) and pore size and poor stability of filtration membranes limit their widespread applications, which is far from meeting a wide variety of oil-polluted water. Here polypyrrole-coated meshes with underwater superoleophobicity and underoil superhydrophobicity as well as controllable pore size were prepared by adopting cyclic voltammetry. It is found that the surface micro/nanohierarchical structures play a critical role in the formation of underwater superoleophobicity and underoil superhydrophobicity. HCl is advantageous to the construction of highly rough surface rather than HSO and HPO. The obtained filtration membranes can be used for the on-demand separation of oil-water mixtures, showing outstanding stability in harsh conditions, such as high temperature (80 °C), low temperature (0 °C), salt (0.5 M NaCl), and acid (1 M HCl), except for alkali (1 M NaOH).
油水分离对于处理含油废水(包括不相容的轻质/重质油水混合物、油包水或水包油乳液)非常重要。最近,具有特殊润湿性的界面材料(尤其是过滤膜)得到了广泛的发展,由于其在节能、高通量和好的选择性方面的优势,解决了环境问题。然而,给定的润湿性(超亲水性或超疏水性)和孔径以及过滤膜的较差稳定性限制了其广泛应用,远远不能满足各种含油污水的需求。在此,通过循环伏安法制备了具有水下超疏油性和油下超疏水性以及可控制孔径的聚吡咯涂层网格。研究发现,表面微纳分级结构在水下超疏油性和油下超疏水性的形成中起着关键作用。HCl 有利于构建高度粗糙的表面,而 HSO 和 HPO 则不利于构建。所得到的过滤膜可用于按需分离油水混合物,在高温(80°C)、低温(0°C)、盐(0.5 M NaCl)和酸(1 M HCl)等恶劣条件下表现出出色的稳定性,除了碱(1 M NaOH)。