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Young A Lee1,2, Seohyun Cho1,3, Seounkyun Choi3, O-Chang Kwon1,3, Sun Mi Yoon1, Seong Jin Kim1, Kyoo-Chul Park4, Seok Chung2,3,5, Myoung-Woon Moon1.
Abstract
Water, abundant and ubiquitous in nature, is an easy yet powerful resource for the creatures to survive by putting together with their topologies interfacing their living environment. Here, a slippery, water-infusing surface (SWIS) that retains a thick and stable water layer on the membrane is presented, robustly maintaining the oil repellency against the pressure and friction of immiscible liquids. Inspired by the plant trichome structures and their function, grooved nanotrichome, formed on the fibrous membrane by the oxygen plasma etching, induces robust water lubrication on the SWIS. SWIS membrane repels and separates highly viscous and adhesive oils in air and underwater by preventing oils from adhering to the lubricating surface. Repeated tests both in air and underwater confirm the antiadhesion and self-cleaning properties of the SWIS. The SWIS oil scooper, fixed on a frame with a handle, successfully collects spilled oil on a pilot-scale oil spill site and a real ocean oil spill site by simply scooping and recovering the oil. In addition, SWIS membrane is expected to help protect environments with further applications such as oil-wastewater treatment and oil separation in food.Entities:
Keywords: SWIS oil scooper; grooved nanotrichome; slippery water infused membrane; thick and stable water lubrication layer
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Year: 2022 PMID: 35138051 PMCID: PMC9069195 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202103950
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Sci (Weinh) ISSN: 2198-3844 Impact factor: 17.521
Figure 1Oil repellency behavior by oil attachment and detachment procedure on the fibrous membranes with the SWIS and the WIS under the same condition. A heavy oil droplet was touched, spread, and lifted on the membranes with A) the SWIS and B) the WIS, which were covered C) with and D) without the thick water layer, respectively. Oil on (A) and (B) was LSFO (Low sulfur fuel oil).
Figure 2The water layers on the SWIS. SEM, cryo‐SEM, optical images before and after water wetting, and their characterization. A,i) A membrane of cellulose fibers 10–20 µm in diameter with ii) GNT structures and iii) two microchannels fully covered with GNTs fabricated by plasma etching. B) Cryo‐SEM images of i) water‐wet microchannels, ii) GNT structures, and iii) a single fiber enveloped by water. C) Optical side view images for i) dry and wet membranes of ii) WIS and iii) SWIS after dropping water of 60 µL on fabrics. D) A graph showing water retention volume in the SWIS and WIS membranes (0.5 × 2.3 cm2) with the water infusing time. Error bars indicate the standard deviation from three experiments. E) Sequential images of water height above the membrane just before, during and after a drop fall off the membrane on (top) the WIS and (bottom) the SWIS. F) Graphs for (left) the measured thickness of the water surface from the membrane center to the top and (right) to the bottom.
Figure 3Water‐lubricating membrane for oil repelling in air and self‐cleaning underwater. A) A schematic showing the oil on the membranes under cyclic movement with speed (v). High‐speed camera images showing LSFO droplets lubricating on the WIS and the SWIS with three cycles with a constant speed after lowing the oil droplet to touch the surface. B) On the SWIS, no residue was seen after the third cycle and upon lifting the oil droplet. However, C) on top WIS membrane, the membrane was mobile (i), leaving the oil residue on the track due to the local pinning to the fibers discretely extruded (red arrow in (ii)). D) A schematic showing the water layer thickness (H water) versus the critical fiber thickness. L CS and L CW were the critical lengths for the fibers on the SWIS and the WIS, respectively. The bottom image shows the oily branches adhered to the fibers on the WIS (red circle). E) Optical images of oil droplets repelled on WIS and SWIS underwater. HFO was first dropped on both membranes in air and then immersed in water to explore the oil repellency behaviors. Cryo‐SEM images of F) a water‐wet GNT in the top view and G) LSFO on a water‐wet GNT in the cross‐sectioned view. Two schematics for each condition were inserted. H) A graph showing underwater repellency for immiscible liquids with a wide range of densities and viscosities listed in Table S1 in the Supporting Information. Liquids numbered (black dots) were investigated for underwater superoleophobicity (see references in the supplementary information), and selective liquids (red dots) were newly tested on the SWIS membrane as a) silicone oil 100 cSt, b) silicone oil 1000 cSt, c) LSFO, d) bunker C, and e) FC70, for which the underwater contact angle was more than 160°.
Figure 4Oil repellency and recovery by the SWIS membrane. A) Self‐cleaning of HFO by water following the alternative pattern of WIS/SWIS/WIS/SWIS under air conditions. B) HFO residues after repeated dipping through the air–water interface on WIS and SWIS after 100 cycles at 17 °C. C) HFO oils on oil scooper patterned with WIS/SWIS showing that HFO was separated entirely only on the SWIS. Optical image of the oil scooping operation from D) a series of oil scooping‐releasing procedure (LSFO): oily residue with the thickness of ∼few mm (in black) was knocked off from the SWIS on which the surface was revealed clean (the blue circular area) E) a smaller reservoir (LSFO), and F) oil‐spilled site in seashore (HFO).