Thermally Induced Silane Dehydrocoupling: Hydrophobic and Oleophilic Filter Paper Preparation for Water Separation and Removal from Organic Solvents.

ABSTRACT: Organic solvents with high purity are essential in various fields such as optical, electronic, pharmaceutical, and chemical areas to prevent low-quality products or undesired side-products. Constructing methods to remove impurities such as water residue in organic solvents has been a significant challenge. Within this article, we report for the first time a new method for the preparation of hydrophobic and oleophilic filter paper (named OCFP), based on thermally induced silane dehydrocoupling between cellulose-based filter paper and octadecylsilane. We comprehensively characterized OCFP using various characterization techniques (FTIR, XPS, XRD, and EDS). OCFP showed super-hydrophobic and oleophilic properties as well as remarkable water separation and removal efficiency (>93%) in various o

SUBMITTER: Kang RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8510372 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature