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The rapid cleanup of heavy crude oil spills is challenging due to the poor mobility of highly viscous oil.Traditional absorption strategies involve heating oils to a relatively high temperature to reduce their viscosity,but this method is expensive.Herein,a solar-heated reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-wrapped melamine sponge (MS) was proposed to rapidly absorb oil.The prepared rGO-MS exhibited good hydrophobicity and oleophilicity and could be used for the rapid cleanup of oil spills from water.In addition,the excellent photothermal conversion effect of rGO enabled the rGO-MS composite to achieve a solar energy absorption efficiency of 91%.Due to the localized solar energy collection and wetting properties ofrGO-MS,viscous oil near the contact region was effectively heated,enabling rapid heavy oil recovery under solar light illumination.This proposed solar heating-assisted viscous oil sorbent has great promise for use in heavy oil spill cleanups in the future.