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Spongy Graphene as a Highly Efficient and Recyclable Sorbent for Oils and Organic Solvents

  1. Hengchang Bi1,
  2. Xiao Xie1,
  3. Kuibo Yin1,
  4. Yilong Zhou1,
  5. Shu Wan1,
  6. Longbing He1,
  7. Feng Xu1,
  8. Florian Banhart2,
  9. Litao Sun1,*,
  10. Rodney S. Ruoff3,*

Article first published online: 20 JUN 2012

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201200888

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Advanced Functional Materials

Advanced Functional Materials

Volume 22, Issue 21, pages 4421–4425, November 7, 2012

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Bi, H., Xie, X., Yin, K., Zhou, Y., Wan, S., He, L., Xu, F., Banhart, F., Sun, L. and Ruoff, R. S. (2012), Spongy Graphene as a Highly Efficient and Recyclable Sorbent for Oils and Organic Solvents. Adv. Funct. Mater., 22: 4421–4425. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201200888

Author Information

  1. 1

    SEU-FEI Nano-Pico Center, Key Laboratory of MEMS of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, P. R. China

  2. 2

    Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux, UMR 7504 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 23 rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, France

  3. 3

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials and Science Program, The University of Texas at Austin, One University Station C2200, Austin, TX 78712, USA

*SEU-FEI Nano-Pico Center, Key Laboratory of MEMS of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, P. R. China

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 2 NOV 2012
  2. Article first published online: 20 JUN 2012
  3. Manuscript Received: 29 MAR 2012

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Keywords:

  • spongy graphene;
  • graphene;
  • sorbents;
  • oils;
  • organic solvents

Abstract

In this work, spongy graphene (SG), a shape-mouldable and nanoporous material with a high specific surface area used as a versatile and recyclable sorbent material, is proposed and studied. SG shows highly efficient absorption of not only petroleum products and fats, but also toxic solvents such as toluene and chloroform (up to 86 times of its own weight), requiring no further pretreatment, which is tens of times higher than that of conventional absorbers. Moreover, SG can be regenerated (>10 times) by heat treatment, yielding the full release of adsorbates (>99%). The present work suggests SG a widespread potential for applications in industry as well as topics regarding environmental protection.

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