title: Carbon fiber aerogel made from raw cotton: a novel, efficient and recyclable sorbent for oils and organic solvents.
abstract: Twisted carbon fiber (TCF) aerogel with good selective sorption is produced in large scale by using raw cotton as the precursor. TCF aerogel shows highly efficient sorption of organic liquids (pump oil: up to 192 times its own weight; chloroform: up to 115 times its own weight). Moreover, it could be regenerated many times without decrease of sorption capacity by distillation, combustion or squeezing, which depends on the type of pollutants.
authors.affiliation: SEU-FEI Nano-Pico Center, Key Laboratory of MEMS of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, P. R. China; School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore.
authors.forename: Hengchang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bi
authors.forename: Zongyou
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Xiehong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Chaoliang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Fangtao
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Qingling
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xinyang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Bu
authors.forename: Xuehong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Litao
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: aerogel; carbon fiber; organic solvent; pollutant; raw cotton; sorbent