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Deposition of Porous Sorbents on Fabric Supports
Published on: June 12, 2018
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Converting waste textiles into highly effective sorbent materials
Bijan Nasri-Nasrabadi1, Nolene Byrne1
1Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University Geelong Victoria 3216 Australia nolene.byrne@deakin.edu.au.
RSC Advances
|May 6, 2022
Abstract:
Activated carbon fibres with a tubular structure and exfoliated surface were produced utilizing cotton textile waste as the precursor. The synthesized carbon fibres were freeze dried resulting in a tubular structure and large pore size distribution. The absorption properties against various oils and organic solvents were accessed, these fibres showed some of the highest absorption capabilities reported for cellulose based carbons, in particular for olive oil, gasoline and chloroform.

