Ultrafast Separation of Emulsified Oil/Water Mixtures by Ultrathin Free‐Standing Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotube Network Films

Zhun Shi(Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics), Wenbin Zhang(Chinese Academy of Sciences), Feng Zhang(Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xia Liu(Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dong Wang(Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jian Jin(Chinese Academy of Sciences), Lei Jiang(Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Advanced Materials
March 12, 2013
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Abstract

As an alternative to polymer membranes, ultrathin free-standing single-walled carbon-nanotube network films are used to realize oil/water separation with ultrahigh flux. The films with tunable thickness of the tens of nanometer scale can effectively separate both micrometer and nanometer-sized surfactant-free and surfactant-stabilized water-in-oil emulsions with a flux 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than commercial filtration membranes with similar separation performance.


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