Issue 35, 2013
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RSC Advances

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 Tjiub  and  Tianxi Liu*a  

* Corresponding authors

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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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA00089C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Jan 2013
Accepted
01 Kor 2013
First published
02 Kor 2013

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 14938-14941

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

C. Zhang, W. W. Tjiu and T. Liu, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 14938 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA00089C

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