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Ming-Bang Wu, Sheng Huang, Ting-Yu Liu, Jian Wu, Seema Agarwal, Andreas Greiner, Zhi-Kang Xu

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 2006806. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202006806

Fast and efficient cleanup of crude oil spills is still a global challenge because most of the crude oils are highly viscous and lowly fluid. Herein, a kind of polydimethylsiloxane‐decorated wood carbon sponges (PDMS@WCS) with desirable compressibility and hydrophobicity for the fast adsorption and enhanced recovery of crude oil via the promotion of Joule‐heating and photothermal effect is reported. Moreover, the PDMS@WCS can be compressed and released at a constant strain of 50% for over times without structural damage due to the protection of PDMS coating. Thus, the adsorbed crude oil can be facilely excluded from PDMS@WCS under external pressure to show enhanced recovery.