Abstract
Herein, inspired by desert beetles, we fabricated a multifunctional heterogeneous superwettable coating (MHSC) for water collection and oily wastewater cleanup. The selective modifications of 1-octadecanethiol (ODT) treated CoO and P25 TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared, so hydrophobic CoO NPs and superhydrophilic P25 NPs were combined on the MHSC, showing the water contact angle (WCA) of 156.5° and rolling-off angle (RA) of 6.4°. With the aid of waterborne polyurethane (WPU), five kinds of substrates (i.e., glass slide, dish, wood, fabric, sponge) spray-coated by MHSC displayed high-efficiency water collection rates (WCRs) of 18.1±0.7mgmin-1 cm-2. Moreover, MHSC coated fabric manifested robust oil/water separations with separation efficiencies (SEs) >99.7 % and fluxes ranged from 9.7 to 11.0Lm-2 s-1. Efficient oil sorption from oily water was obtained by MHSC coated sponge with oil absorption capacities (OACs) of 6.5-29.5gg-1. Further, even dealt with the treatments of mechanical destructions, extreme temperature and UV illumination, the coated materials remained stable performances.
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