articleAdvanced MaterialsOct 12, 2016Closed access

Advanced Sorbents for Oil‐Spill Cleanup: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

University of Science and Technology of China · Hefei National Center for Physical Sciences at Nanoscale

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Abstract

Oil sorbents play a very important part in the remediation processes of oil spills. To enhance the oil-sorption properties and simplify the oil-recovery process, various advanced oil sorbents and oil-collecting devices based on them have been proposed recently. Here, we firstly discuss the design considerations for the fabrication of oil sorbents and describe recently developed oil sorbents based on modification strategy. Then, recent advances regarding oil sorbents mainly based on carbon materials and swellable oleophilic polymers are also presented. Subsequently, some additional properties are emphasized, which are required by oil sorbents to cope with oil spills under extreme conditions or to facilitate the…

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