Hydrophobic cotton fabric with 3-mercaptopropyltriethoxysilane/polyhe-dral oligomeric silsesquioxane/1-octadecanethiol modification for oil/water separation

摘要

A protocol to produce a silsesquioxane (POSS) with a long alkyl chain coating on natural cotton (CT) fabric is applied. The surface hydroxyl groups of cotton fabric are converted with 3-mercaptopropyltriethoxysilane (MPTES) to thiol groups. Then the POSS links to the thiol groups by thiol-ene click reactions triggered by UV irradiation to produce POSS-CT or grafted with 1-octadecanethiol (ODT) using one-pot or two-pot modification protocols to generate the ODT-POSS-CT fabrics. The POSS-CT is highly hydrophobic, could absorb 0.96 g hexane/g fabrics when competing with invaded water, and reach 1.12 hexane g/g fabrics when water was absorbed separately. The one-pot modification protocol yielded surfaces with almost constant water contact angle (144(degrees)) and perfect wetting by diiodomethane (0o), producing constant dispersive component (50.8 mJ/m(2)) and polar component (13.6 mJ/m(2)). The ODT-POSS-CT via two-pot modification leads to water contact angles >143(degrees) and diiodomethane contact angle of about 46(degrees), with corresponding dispersive and polar components being 36.1 mJ/ m(2) and 9.4 mJ/m(2), respectively. The complete grafting of ODT onto POSS yields a compact hydrophobic layer with reduced effective surface area for dispersive components, transferring the surface from hydrophobic to omniphobic for both water and diiodomethane.

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