{"id":135921,"date":"2021-09-21T19:49:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=135921"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T11:11:10","slug":"researchers-develop-super-hydrophobic-cotton-for-oil-spill-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/researchers-develop-super-hydrophobic-cotton-for-oil-spill-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop super-hydrophobic cotton for oil-spill cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is\u00a0the news?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

Recently, researchers of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have developed a new class of\u00a0<\/span>super-hydrophobic cotton composite with Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) that promise marine oil-spill clean-up in near future.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the features\u00a0of the new cotton material developed?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

First,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0this is a novel, highly porous and water-repellent super-hydrophobic cotton composite material containing MOF, which can absorb oil selectively from an oil-water mixture.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>the MOF composite has great capability for selective separation of the oils from oil \/ water mixtures. The separation efficiency\u00a0is very high\u00a0irrespective of the chemical composition and density of the oils.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Third,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0the MOF composite is also able to absorb large volumes of oils and can be reused for a minimum of 10 times so that the sorbents can provide more recovery of the spilled oil.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth<\/b><\/em>, the\u00a0new\u00a0cotton will help in\u00a0cleaning the spilled oil from environmental water (river, sea or ocean water) during oil transportation, thus reducing environmental water pollution.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fifth<\/b><\/em>,<\/em> both heavy and light oils can be effectively absorbed by the material.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sixth,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>the material\u00a0is easy to prepare, cost-effective and recyclable.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Seventh,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0MOFs are a class of compounds containing metal ions coordinated to organic ligands to form 3D structures. They are often highly porous materials that act like a sponge.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eighth,\u00a0<\/b><\/em>the medical cotton changes from hydrophilic to super-hydrophobic material and can float on the water surface.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>This post is based on the article ”\u00a0<\/span>Researchers develop super-hydrophobic cotton for oil-spill cleanup<\/span><\/b>\u00a0” published in the<\/span>\u00a0Down to\u00a0Earth\u00a0<\/span><\/b>on\u00a0<\/span>20th September 2021.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is\u00a0the news?\u00a0 Recently, researchers of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have developed a new class of\u00a0super-hydrophobic cotton composite with Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) that promise marine oil-spill clean-up in near future.\u00a0 What are the features\u00a0of the new cotton material developed?\u00a0 First,\u00a0this is a novel, highly porous and water-repellent super-hydrophobic cotton composite material containing… Continue reading Researchers develop super-hydrophobic cotton for oil-spill cleanup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[8659,426,5098,9885],"class_list":["post-135921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-environmental-pollution","tag-marine-pollution","tag-oil-spill","tag-super-hydrophobic-cotton","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701045783},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}