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In this work, carbon particles via candle combustion were firstly adsorbed on the surface of stainless steel meshes (SSMs), which formed a thin hydrophobic coating, and a rough structure was then constructed through chemical vapor deposition and high temperature calcination, with the resultant SSM surface wrapped with uniform silica coating possessing the characteristic of superoleophobicity underwater. Scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) were used to characterize the modified SSMs. The prepared SSMs were superhydrophilic in air, and they had superoleophobicity underwater (157.4\u00b0). The separation efficiency of five oil\/water mixtures was above 98.8%, and the separation flux was 46,300 L\u00b7m\u22122\u00b7h\u22121. After it was immersed in 1 mol\/L NaOH, 1 mol\/L HCl and 3.5 wt% NaCl for 24 h, respectively, the efficiency was still above 97.3%. Further immersion in the solution of dopamine and octadecylamine resulted in the transformation of superhydrophililc\/superoleophobicity-underwater SSMs to superhydrophobic SSMs, and the resultant SSMs with reverse surface wettability was also used for the oil\/water separation with good separation efficiency and separation flux.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym15143042","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,14]],"date-time":"2023-07-14T08:40:06Z","timestamp":1689324006000},"page":"3042","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Preparation of Superhydrophilic\/Underwater Superoleophobic and Superhydrophobic Stainless Steel Meshes Used for Oil\/Water Separation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Yu-Ping","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde 415000, China"},{"name":"College of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ya-Ning","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hong-Li","family":"Du","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde 415000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ling-Bo","family":"Qv","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"},{"name":"College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang 453003, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2082","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1084282","article-title":"Long-Term Ecosystem Response to the Exxon Vatdez Oil Spill","volume":"302","author":"Peterson","year":"2003","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"434","DOI":"10.1038\/nnano.2017.33","article-title":"Joule-heated graphene-wrapped sponge enables fast clean-up of viscous crude-oil spill","volume":"12","author":"Ge","year":"2017","journal-title":"Nat. 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