Foam sucks up and releases oil like a sponge

• Autores: Carolyn Wilke
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3116, 2017, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A new material can absorb 90 times its own weight in spilled oil and then be squeezed out like a sponge and reused. It could make it easier and greener to clean up oil spills. The oil sponge created by Seth Darling at Argonne National Laboratory consists of a simple foam made of polyurethane or polyimide plastics and coated with "oil-loving" silane molecules for capturing oil