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Hydrophobic and fire-resistant Polydimethylsiloxane/ZIF-8 hybrid coating on cotton textile for efficient oil-water separation


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Sooriyanarayanan, Vikneswary and Wen, Ong Yi and Abdul Razak, Mus'ab and Mohd Tohir, Mohd Zahirasri and Choong, Thomas Shean Yaw and Abdul Hamid, Mohamad Rezi (2024) Hydrophobic and fire-resistant Polydimethylsiloxane/ZIF-8 hybrid coating on cotton textile for efficient oil-water separation. Journal of Applied Science and Engineering, 27 (11). pp. 3499-3512. ISSN 2708-9967; EISSN: 2708-9975

Abstract

The subject of oil-water separation has received tremendous attention in recent years due to an increasing amount of oily wastewater produced by industries and frequent incidents involving marine oil spills. Cotton fabrics can potentially be used as filtering element for oil-water separation but they are inherently flammable. Proper selection of surface finishing approaches/coating materials enable the fabrics to be endowed with improved fire safety and hydrophobic property for oil-water separation. In this work, a multifunctional coating comprises of polydimethylsiloxane (termed PMDS) and zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8) was applied to cotton fabrics via simple dip-coating method (termed COT-PDMS-ZIF8). COT-PDMS-ZIF8 displayed an improved hydrophobicity property with water contact angle of 140.3◦. The coated fabric preferentially allows oil to permeate through the fabric filter with permeate flux of 0.35 ml·m−2·min−1, resulting in oil-water separation efficiency ∼99%. Incorporation of crystalline ZIF-8 slows down rapid burning of cotton as evidenced by small derivative weight change (11.2% ·min−1 vs 16.21% ·min−1) from thermogravimetric analysis. Vertical flame test showed that the modified fabric burned longer than that of pristine fabric (38.75 sec vs 20.75 sec). Melt dripping behavior of cotton was successfully mitigated which further improve fire safety of the material. To sum up, a thin PDMS/ZIF-8 coating on cotton fabrics enhance hydrophobicity and fire performance of the fabrics considerably making them as promising candidate for oil-water separation. © The Author(’s).


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.202411_27(11).0013
Publisher: Tamkang University
Keywords: Fire-resistant coating; Hydrophobic coating; Metal organic framework; Oil-water separation
Depositing User: Mr. Mohamad Syahrul Nizam Md Ishak
Date Deposited: 25 Sep 2024 04:44
Last Modified: 25 Sep 2024 04:44
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