Carbon Nanostructures as Promising Future Materials
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "2D and Carbon Nanomaterials".
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit an article within our Special Issue entitled Carbon Nanostructures as Promising Future Materials. Carbon is an element well known for its allotropic states, which are determined by various structures that are found in diamond, graphite, graphene, etc., that have various uses. The last four decades have marked a relaunch of carbon-based materials, beginning with the discovery of new nanostructures such as fullerenes (1985, with Nobel Prize for Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, and Richard Smalley in 1996), carbon nanotubes (1991), graphenes (Nobel Prize for Andre Geim in 2004 and Konstantin Novoselov in 2010), carbon dots. The preparation of carbon nanostructures can be achieved through several strategies, two of which stand out as the most important: pyrolysis of organic precursors under an inert atmosphere, which is applicable to large scale production but offers limited control over the carbon nanostructure; physical/chemical vapor deposition techniques, which offer atomic scale precision in controlling the nanostructure but require complex equipment. Carbon nanostructures have found a wide range of applications, such as in electron transport and nanoscale electronics, advanced fillers, adsorbents, active materials in energy accumulating systems (batteries), hydrogen storage systems, supercapacitors, additives for polymers, ceramics, metals and metal alloys, glasses, textiles and composite materials, filtering media, catalysts or supports for catalysts, delivery of moisture and essential elements for plants growth, theranostic platform (drug immobilization, transport, and delivery, medical imaging, etc.)
This Special Issue aims to present the latest research regarding the preparation, characterization, and application of carbon nanostructures and intends to serve as a platform for debating and disseminating new results in this very versatile and practical research domain.
For this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following: carbon nanostructures and nanocomposites, energy storage, medical applications, and carbon dots.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Marcel Popa
Prof. Dr. Leonard Ionut Atanase
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon nanostructures
- graphene
- fullerene
- nanotube
- carbon dots
- carbon nanocomposites
- support for catalysts
- medical applications
- energy storage
- fuel storage (including hydrogen)
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