Smart Sponge for Fast Liquid Absorption and Thermal Responsive Self‐Squeezing

• Published in: Advanced materials (Weinheim) Vol. 32; no. 14; pp. e1908249 - n/a
• Main Authors: Cui, Ying, Wang, Yujie, Shao, Ziyu, Mao, Anran, Gao, Weiwei, Bai, Hao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.04.2020
• Subjects: Absorption; Astronauts; Compressing; Crude oil; directional freezing; Energy conservation; fast liquid absorption; Freezing; Hemostatics; liquid recycling; Materials science; Oil spills; Polyurethane resins; Recovering; Recycling; Shape effects; Shape memory; Sponges; thermal responsiveness; Tortuosity; directional freezing; liquid recycling; fast liquid absorption; tortuosity; thermal responsiveness

Liquid absorption and recycling play a crucial role in many industrial and environmental applications, such as oil spill cleanup and recovery, hemostasis, astronauts' urine recycling, and so on. Although many liquid absorbing materials have been developed, it still remains a grand challenge to...