About this Research Topic
Carbon nanomaterials, thanks to the exceptional physicochemical properties, have been widely applied in various applications including energy conversion, energy storage, and environmental remediation, with the aim of promoting the sustainability of the whole society. To date, various carbon nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon nanofibers, mesoporous carbons, etc. have been explored and utilized in different directions. Besides, enormous efforts have also been employed to modify carbon nanomaterials with specific functionalities, hence broadening their potential applications and performance, but still not enough. The further development of carbon sustainability research has been largely thwarted due to the lack of innovative synthetic methodology. The transformative advances in synthetic strategies or processing methods for carbon nanomaterials can promote the signs of progress of carbons for sustainable applications. Searching for innovative synthetic methodology for the next carbon nanoarchitectures is still an urgent need.
The abundance, versatility, and stability features of carbon nanomaterials encourage researchers to make more deep studies in this aspect, and more efforts should be devoted to develop novel structured carbon nanomaterials and find their applications. This Research Topic aims to showcase the latest development in the novel fabrication and synthetic strategies of carbon nanomaterials. Besides the advances in the reported strategies such as pyrolysis with organic precursors, CVD, air-flow impacting, phonochemical approach, mechanochemical approach, etc., the new conceptual strategies for synthesizing carbon nanomaterials are welcomed. Besides, it also aims to provide insights into the application of these novel synthesized carbon nanomaterials in sustainable applications, including CO2 conversion, hydrogen generation, gas separation and storage, water purification/desalination, etc. The application of carbon nanomaterials for other emerging sustainable application technologies is also encouraged.
Original research and review papers will address themes that include, but are not limited to:
• Carbon nanomaterials from MOFs, COFs, and novel polymers
• Templated strategies for new carbon nanomaterials
• CVD for new carbon materials
• Phonochemical/mechanochemical strategies for carbon synthesis
• Design of new precursors for new carbon nanomaterials
• Other approaches for carbon nanomaterial synthesis, especially with low cost and high efficiency.
• Carbon-based nanomaterials for sustainable applications, such as gas separation and storage, catalysis, energy storage, wastewater treatment, and brine desalination
Dr. Xun Sun : Co-ordinator for the project.
Keywords: Carbon, nanomaterials, synthetic strategies, sustainability
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