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Smart Cotton Fabric with CO2-Responsive Wettability for Controlled Oil/Water Separation

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Stimuli-responsive materials with switchable wettability have promising practical applications in oil/water separation. A novel CO2-responsive cotton fabric for controlled oil/water separation was fabricated based on mussel-inspired reaction and polymerized with 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA). As expected, the modified fabric exhibited switchable hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity after CO2/N2 alternation, and it could be used for gravity-driven CO2-controlled oil/water separation. Water was selectively penetrated through the fabric and separated from oil after treating by CO2. A reversed wettability could be generated through simply treated with N2. It is expected that the as-prepared fabrics could be applied in smart oil/water separation due to the attractive properties of CO2-switchable system.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 51703130), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. LY18E080018), Shaoxing Public Welfare Project (Grant no. 2017B70042), and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Project of Shaoxing University (Grant no. 2019LGGH1004).

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  1. College of Textile and Garment, College of Life Science, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, 312000, China

    Liping Liang, Yanyan Dong, Hongfang Wang & Xu Meng

  2. Key Laboratory of Clean Dyeing and Finishing Technology of Zhejiang Province, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, 312000, China

    Xu Meng

  3. Zhejiang Sub-center of National Carbon Fiber Engineering Technology Research Center, Shaoxing, 312000, China

    Xu Meng

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Liang, L., Dong, Y., Wang, H. et al. Smart Cotton Fabric with CO2-Responsive Wettability for Controlled Oil/Water Separation. Adv. Fiber Mater. 1, 222–230 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-019-00018-7

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