Photothermal viscosity reduction
A porous carbon derived from biomass wheat buns and modified with PDMS, offering hydrophobic oil absorption and photothermal conversion for repeated recovery of high-viscosity oil spills.
Lingling, Zeng · Weijie, Wei · Jingjing, He · Wang, Yingying · Taipeng, Jiang · Wan, Wubo · Wang, Lijuan · Chen, Sheng · Gao, Zhuwei
Journal of Water Process Engineering 2026
Surface temperature rises to 67.5 °C within 220 s at 1.0 kW/m² optical power density