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Hairy Uniform Permanently Ligated Hollow Nanoparticles with Precise Dimension Control and Tunable Optical Properties

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Energy-Efficient Oil-Water Separation of Biomimetic Copper Membrane with Multiscale Hierarchical Dendritic Structures

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Synthesis of ‘reactive’ and covalent polymeric multilayer coatings with durable superoleophobic and superoleophilic properties under water

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Stretchable and durable superhydrophobicity that acts both in air and under oil

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Advanced Sorbents for Oil-Spill Cleanup: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

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A Sugar-Based Gelator for Marine Oil-Spill Recovery

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Facile Synthesis of Tunable and Durable Bulk Superhydrophobic Material from Amine “Reactive” Polymeric Gel

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Crystallization of Polymer Chains Chemically Attached on a Surface: Lamellar Orientation from Flat-on to Edge-on

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Simple, Reversible, and Fast Modulation in Superwettability, Gradient, and Adsorption by Counterion Exchange on Self-Assembled Monolayer

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Precisely Size-Tunable Monodisperse Hairy Plasmonic Nanoparticles via Amphiphilic Star-Like Block Copolymers

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Recent Development of Advanced Materials with Special Wettability for Selective Oil/Water Separation

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Silver-Nanoparticle-Colored Cotton Fabrics with Tunable Colors and Durable Antibacterial and Self-Healing Superhydrophobic Properties

(2015) Mengchun Wu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Robust Superhydrophobic Foam: A Graphdiyne-Based Hierarchical Architecture for Oil/Water Separation

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Rapid and Efficient Separation of Oil from Oil-in-Water Emulsions Using a Janus Cotton Fabric

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CO2-Responsive Nanofibrous Membranes with Switchable Oil/Water Wettability

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Fabrication of superhydrophobic surface with controlled adhesion by designing heterogeneous chemical composition

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Bioinspired Multifunctional Au Nanostructures with Switchable Adhesion

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A Robust and Cost-Effective Superhydrophobic Graphene Foam for Efficient Oil and Organic Solvent Recovery

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(2015) Emmanuel Nyankson et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Flexible Teflon Nanocone Array Surfaces with Tunable Superhydrophobicity for Self-Cleaning and Aqueous Droplet Patterning

(2014) Mana Toma et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

An Intelligent Superwetting PVDF Membrane Showing Switchable Transport Performance for Oil/Water Separation

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Oil/Water Separation with Selective Superantiwetting/Superwetting Surface Materials

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(2014) Chaowei Feng et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Highly compressible and stretchable superhydrophobic coating inspired by bio-adhesion of marine mussels

(2014) Fatang Liu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Robust and Durable Superhydrophobic Cotton Fabrics for Oil/Water Separation

(2013) Xiaoyan Zhou et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Rubberlike Stretchable Fibrous Membrane with Anti-Wettability and Gas Breathability

(2013) Seong J. Cho et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Ultrafast Separation of Emulsified Oil/Water Mixtures by Ultrathin Free-Standing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Network Films

(2013) Zhun Shi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

pH-responsive bidirectional oil–water separation material

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(2013) Jianfeng Zang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Robust superhydrophobic polyurethane sponge as a highly reusable oil-absorption material

(2013) Qing Zhu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Superhydrophobic polymer-coated copper-mesh; membranes for highly efficient oil–water separation

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Magnetically Driven Floating Foams for the Removal of Oil Contaminants from Water

(2012) Paola Calcagnile et al.   ACS Nano

Reactive Polymer Multilayers Fabricated by Covalent Layer-by-Layer Assembly: 1,4-Conjugate Addition-Based Approaches to the Design of Functional Biointerfaces

(2012) Shane L. Bechler et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Superhydrophobic and superoleophilic properties of graphene-based sponges fabricated using a facile dip coating method

(2012) Duc Dung Nguyen et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

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Polyester Materials with Superwetting Silicone Nanofilaments for Oil/Water Separation and Selective Oil Absorption

(2011) Junping Zhang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Mimicking natural superhydrophobic surfaces and grasping the wetting process: A review on recent progress in preparing superhydrophobic surfaces

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Chemically Modified Superhydrophobic WOxNanowire Arrays and UV Photopatterning

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Growing “Nanofruit” Textures on Photo-Crosslinked SU-8 Surfaces through Layer-by-Layer Grafting of Hyperbranched Poly(Ethyleneimine)

(2009) Jamie Ford et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

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