Issue 46, 2018
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Soft Matter

Self-healing cellulose nanocrystal-stabilized droplets for water collection under oil†

Xinxing Lin,a   Wei Ma,bc   Lihui Chen,*a   Liulian Huang,a   Hui Wu ORCID logo *a  and  Atsushi Takahara ORCID logo bc  

* Corresponding authors

a College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
E-mail: wuhui@fafu.edu.cn, fafuclh@163.com
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b International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

c ERATO Takahara Soft Interface Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

Abstract

The removal of small water droplets from oils is imperative because oils can easily be contaminated or deteriorated by water during transportation, storage and usage. Here, we report superhydrophobic magnetic cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) nanoparticles, which are capable of removing tiny water droplets from oil by forming under oil particle-stabilized droplets. These particle-stabilized droplets can be collected and moved by a magnetic force, and self-healed upon damage by an external force.

Graphical abstract: Self-healing cellulose nanocrystal-stabilized droplets for water collection under oil

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SM01852A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Sep 2018
Accepted
08 Nov 2018
First published
09 Nov 2018

Soft Matter, 2018,14, 9308-9311

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Self-healing cellulose nanocrystal-stabilized droplets for water collection under oil

X. Lin, W. Ma, L. Chen, L. Huang, H. Wu and A. Takahara, Soft Matter, 2018, 14, 9308 DOI: 10.1039/C8SM01852A

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