Controllable synthesis of pomelo peel-based aerogel and its application in adsorption of oil/organic pollutants.

ABSTRACT: Oil/water separation is a field of high significance as it might efficiently resolve the contamination of industrial oily wastewater and other oil/water pollution. In this paper, an environmentally-friendly hydrophobic aerogel with high porosity and low density was successfully synthesized with renewable pomelo peels (PPs) as precursors. Typically, a series of sponge aerogels (HPSA-0, HPSA-1 and HPSA-2) were facilely prepared via high-speed dispersion, freeze-drying and silanization with methyltrimethoxysilane. Indeed, the physical properties of aerogel such as density and pore diameter could be tailored by different additives (filter paper fibre and polyvinyl alcohol). Hence, their physico-chemical properties including internal morphology and chemical structure were characterized in detai

SUBMITTER: Shi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6408386 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature