One-pot hydrothermal synthesis and reusable oil-adsorbing properties of porous carbonaceous monoliths using multi-walled carbon nanotubes as templates

Chao Zhang; Weng Weei Tjiu; Tianxi Liu

doi:10.1039/C3RA00089C

One-pot hydrothermal synthesis and reusable oil-adsorbing properties of porous carbonaceous monoliths using multi-walled carbon nanotubes as templates

Chao Zhang,^a Weng Weei Tjiu^b and Tianxi Liu*^a

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^a State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
E-mail: txliu@fudan.edu.cn
Tel: +86-21-55664197

^b Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602, Singapore

Abstract

We demonstrate an efficient strategy for hydrothermal transformation of glucose into carbonaceous nanostructures with hierarchical porosity, by utilizing multi-walled carbon nanotubes as templates, which can be ultilized as a novel reusable adsorbent materials in cleaning up oil spills.

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The article was received on 08 Jan 2013, accepted on 01 Jul 2013 and first published on 02 Jul 2013

Article type: Communication

DOI: 10.1039/C3RA00089C

Citation: RSC Adv., 2013,3, 14938-14941

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DOI: 10.1039/C3RA00089C
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