Researchers have developed a material that can quickly and efficiently separate oil from water, in what could be a major boon for environmental cleanup.
By coating a stainless steel mesh with a porous polyacrylamide hydrogel layer, Prof. Lei Jiang and his team at ICCAS, Beijing have created a simultaneously superoleophobic and superhydrophilic material that can be used as a filter that can separate oil from water.
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