{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Gao C"],"funding":["Jinan Science and Technology Bureau","Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China","National Natural Science Foundation of China","Shandong Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology, Shandong University"],"pagination":["5937-5945"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8867482"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7(7)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Chitosan is a typical hydrophilic biomass building block widely used in material science and engineering. However, its intrinsic amphiphilicity has been seldom noted so far. Herein, a series of glutaraldehyde-crosslinked chitosan cryogels with superamphiphilicity are fabricated at moderately frozen conditions through a freezing-thawing process. The micron-sized porous cryogel samples display a 0° contact angle toward both water and oil, 0° water contact angle under oil, and over 120° oil contact angle underwater. By comparing the wetting behavior of the tablet compressed by pure chitosan powders, the superamphiphilicity of the chitosan sample is proven to be independent on crosslinkers. This special wettability endows the chitosan cryogels with high separation efficiency for various surfac"],"journal":["ACS omega"],"pubmed_title":["Superamphiphilic Chitosan Cryogels for Continuous Flow Separation of Oil-In-Water Emulsions."],"pmcid":["PMC8867482"],"funding_grant_id":["2017YFC1600404","51873079","2021GXRC105","2019CCG02","22178199"],"pubmed_authors":["Yang Y","Xie Y","Chen Z","Huang X","Chen X","Wang Y","Shi J","Gao C"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Superamphiphilic Chitosan Cryogels for Continuous Flow Separation of Oil-In-Water Emulsions.","description":"Chitosan is a typical hydrophilic biomass building block widely used in material science and engineering. However, its intrinsic amphiphilicity has been seldom noted so far. Herein, a series of glutaraldehyde-crosslinked chitosan cryogels with superamphiphilicity are fabricated at moderately frozen conditions through a freezing-thawing process. The micron-sized porous cryogel samples display a 0° contact angle toward both water and oil, 0° water contact angle under oil, and over 120° oil contact angle underwater. By comparing the wetting behavior of the tablet compressed by pure chitosan powders, the superamphiphilicity of the chitosan sample is proven to be independent on crosslinkers. This special wettability endows the chitosan cryogels with high separation efficiency for various surfac","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Feb","modification":"2025-04-04T08:57:30.489Z","creation":"2025-04-04T08:57:30.489Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8867482","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35224354"],"doi":["10.1021/acsomega.1c06178"]}}