On-Demand Oil-Water Separation by Environmentally Responsive Cotton Fabrics

Meina Xiao1, Yinghui Huang1, Anli Xu1

  • 1Department of Polymer Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China.

ACS Omega
|August 29, 2019
PubMed

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