Carbon-Based Catalysts to Address Environmental Challenges
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 226
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs); organic pollutants; environmental applications; metal-free catalysts; carbon-based catalysts
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Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; nanostructured carbon materials; chemical and catalytic reaction engineering
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Dear Colleagues,
The potential of carbons as an alternative to the more conventional materials used in catalysis has been recently recognized. Carbon materials with the graphenic structure can be prepared from a wide range of precursors, and can be used as catalyst supports or as catalysts on their own. Structural defects and edges offer reactive sites where different functional groups can be attached; in addition, carbon atoms in the graphite lattice can be replaced by heteroatoms such as N, B, P or S. Functionalization and doping are methodologies that can be used for tuning the properties of these carbon materials, allowing the design of custom-made catalysts for specific applications.
In this Special Issue, we will focus on challenging environmental applications for carbon-based catalysts, such as the production of chemicals and fuels from biomass and carbon dioxide, including photo and electrocatalysis; energy storage and conversion; and the replacement of industrial catalysts that are based on scarce elements. The application of carbon-based catalysts in pollution abatement is also within the scope of the Special Issue.
Dr. Raquel Pinto Rocha
Prof. Dr. José L. Figueiredo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon-based catalysts
- nanostructured carbons
- carbon surface chemistry
- metal-free carbon catalysis
- biomass conversion to fuels, chemicals and materials
- CO2 valorization
- carbon-based environmental technologies
- energy storage and conversion carbon systems
- carbon-based electrocatalysts and carbon-promoted photocatalysts
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