Recycling Polymeric Solid Wastes for Energy‐Efficient Water Purification, Organic Distillation, and Oil Spill Cleanup (Small 46/2021)

Recycling Polymeric Solid Wastes In article number 2102459, Rui Xiao, Kevin Wu, Yong Sik Ok and co-workers develop polypyrrole-coated melamine foam from polymeric solid wastes for solar-driven steam generation, organic distillation and oil spillage absorption. Benefiting from the in-situ coating and interfacial modulation by polypyrrole, the composite foam obtains multiple functions: achieving rate of 1.77 kg m−2 h−1 in steam generation, 75 vol% concentration promotion in ethanol distillation, and absorption capacity of ≈70 g g−1 in oil spillage cleanup.