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Superhydrophobicity-improved Ethanol-Water Separation

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Efficient separation of biofuels from fermentation broths vis pervaporation plays an important role in addressing the global challenges, such as developing renewable energy. Great efforts have been continuously devoted in the past decades to developing high-performance pervaporation membranes. A recent report published in Science by Zhao et al. showed that a superhydrophobic surface could contribute significantly to improving the pervaporation separation of ethanol-water mixture, which will generate broad interest for the new design of separation membranes.

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Nos.2021YFA1200403, 2018YFE0206900), the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22275171, 22090050, 21874121), the Joint NSFC-ISF Research Grant Program, China(No.22161142020), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, China(No.2020CFA037), and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China(No.LD21B050001).

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  1. Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China

    Lei Xu, Linfeng Chen & Fan Xia

  2. State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China

    Linfeng Chen & Fan Xia

  3. Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China

    Fan Xia

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Xu, L., Chen, L. & Xia, F. Superhydrophobicity-improved Ethanol-Water Separation. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ. 39, 107–108 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40242-023-2320-1

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