writer：Jincui Gu, Peng Xiao, Youju Huang, Jiawei Zhang and Tao Chen*
keywords：Carbon Nanotube, Hybrid Superhydrophobic Materials, Polymer Brushes, Oil/water Separation
source：期刊
specific source：Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015, 3, 4124 - 4128
Issue time：2015年
A robust strategy for fabricating superhydrophobic carbon nanotubes (CNTs) based hybrid materials as separation membrane through the covalent attaching fluorine-bearing organosilane of 1H, 1H, 2H, 2H-perfluorodecyltriethoxysilane (PFDTS) onto -OH funcitonalzied CNTs is proposed. This resulted PFDTS/CNTs superhydrophobic materials with controlled functionalzaition could be used to effectively separate various surfactant-stabilized water-in-oil emulsions with high separation efficiency and high flux. It even maintain stable superhydrophobicity and high separation efficiency under extreme conditions including high or low temperature, strong acidic or alkaline solutions, and show fire-retardant properties.