报告题目：How hydrophilic can a hydrophilic surface be?

报 告 人：王大洋教授(RMIT University, Australia)

报告时间：2017年4月10日（周一）下午2:00

报告地点：嘉定园区学术活动中心307房间

报告摘要：

This presentation will focus mainly on our recent study of how the macroscopic wetting behaviour of charged surfaces is correlated with their microscopic chemical nature of the surface ionic groups. In this work polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) were used as model charged surfaces.1 With the aid of sum frequency generation and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, we demonstrate the surface wetting behaviour of the PEMs is more closely correlated with the configurational geometry rather than hydrate strength of the uncompensated ionic groups on the surface capping layers. The lessons learnt from the surface wetting and the internal structures of as-prepared PEMs have successfully been translated to an innovative superoleophobic coating strategy, which is simple, versatile, cost-effective, and nanostructure-independent comparing to currently available ones. This has enabled us to easily transform conventional stainless steel meshes to highly effective filters for oil-water separation in high separation efficiency and high water flux, which can be easily scaled up for industrial oil/water separations such as oil spill cleanup in seawater.