Under the lab supervision of Ph.D. student Yu Wang, Zijie has functionalized cotton fabrics so that they can separate oil from oil-in-water emulsion rapidly and cleanly. This task was achieved at the fabric pore sizes of 200 µm despite the emulsion droplet sizes of 4 µm. His results have been just published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and a patent has also been filed on this technology.
