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Robust bioinspired surfaces and their exploitation for petroleum hydrocarbon remediation

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The current improvement in science and engineering, actively dealing with surfaces and interfaces, turns into a functioning control with a thriving advancement propensity. Superlyophobic/superlyophilic phenomena in surface sciences have pulled in broad considerations of researchers and specialists. Inspired by the natural and living organism, researchers have designed different biomimetic materials with exceptional surface wettability, such as the smart wetting of asymmetric spider silk surfaces. These smart materials with superlyophobic/superlyophilic wettability are generally utilized for water assortment, self-cleaning, fluid transportation and separation, and many researchers’ domains. Among them, emulsion separation, including division of oil-water blend, mixtures of immiscible liquids and oil-water emulsions, is highlighted by an increasing number of researchers. Numerous materials with one- and two-dimensional morphology, smart surfaces, and super wettability have been effectively designed and utilized in various scientific research applications. We expect that these bioinspired materials with super wettability can have promising applications in practical for emulsion destabilization and liquid transportation.

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The authors are thankful to the Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Materials of Salt Chemical Industry, No. SF201311, and National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Deep Utilization Technology of Rock-salt Resource, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, P.R. China, No SF201801. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) is thankfully acknowledged for partially supporting this work under Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) program awarded to Hafiz M.N. Iqbal (CVU 735340).

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    Nisar Ali, Essoh Lionnelle Gyllye, Chuansong Duanmu & Yong Yang

  2. Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 25120, Pakistan

    Adnan Khan

  3. Department of Chemistry, Hazara University, KPK, Mansehra, 21300, Pakistan

    Farman Ali

  4. School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, 223003, China

    Muhammad Bilal

  5. School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, 64849, Monterrey, Mexico

    Hafiz M. N. Iqbal

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Ali, N., Gyllye, E.L., Duanmu, C. et al. Robust bioinspired surfaces and their exploitation for petroleum hydrocarbon remediation. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 61881–61895 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16525-3

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