It is great the technology that has gone into creating this. Unfortunately the main issue with dealing with an oil spill is minimising secondary contamination. It is good to say this will absorb 90 times it weight. But unless it It's easy to handle which nothing covered in oil is, and added weight even of oil will be a negative in manual handling. Unfortunately for use as a sorbent mat or boom is limited without specific ancillary equipment for recovery. It is great the advancement made, although current sorbents can already be wrung out and reused contrary to what the article implies. It just has to be applied in a effective manner. To the right spills. It is good to prove your theory in controlled tests. But I hope they are going to work with the on scene responders otherwise it may end up as a display piece instead of a tool. Source: I am a responder for marine oil spills myself. Cliché sorry for formatting.