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- Researchers have developed a low-cost treatment for cotton textiles that significantly enhances their performance.
- The treated cotton shows remarkable superhydrophobicity, with a water contact angle of 151.5°, and offers effective UV shielding, allowing less than 2% light to pass through.
- Additionally, this modified cotton is highly effective at reclaiming oil from wastewater, indicating its potential for use in oil spill cleanup and other practical applications.
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Here we report a simple, facile and low-cost approach to the cotton textile with significant properties. After treatment, the cotton textiles exhibit not only an excellent superhydrophobicity with the water contact angle (WCA) of 151.5(o), but also an efficient shielding property against UV with the transmittance under 2.0%. More importantly, this cotton displays an outstanding potency in oil reclaim, which can recycle oil from the waste water with oil stain efficiently. Apparently, our results suggest an innovative material that should find practical and diversified applications, particularly in the field of oil spill cleanup.
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