New Trends in Carbon-Based Catalysts
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2021) | Viewed by 3009
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; structured catalysts; H2; biomass; CO2; microreactors; environment and energy; carbon-based catalysts
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Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; structured catalysts; microreactors; carbon-based catalysts; CO2; environment and energy
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; structured catalysts; H2; biomass; biochars; CO2
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue is to present new trends in the use of carbon-based materials for catalytic applications. Carbon materials have long been used in a wide variety of different applications in the catalysis field, either as support or as catalysts, due to their low cost, high stability in different media and solvents, variety of morphologies and structures, and the possibility of controlling their surface chemistry and textural properties. In recent years, the number of catalytic applications of carbon-based solids has increased exponentially due to the development of new types of related materials, such as one-dimensional carbon nanotubes, two-dimensional graphene nanosheets, three-dimensional carbon monolithic structures, fullerene, nanodiamonds, carbon composites, etc. Additionally, the need for a successful transition towards a sustainable society requires the development of a renewable energy portfolio, including the sustainable production of chemicals and fuels from renewable and green resources, which will present new catalytic possibilities, among which carbon materials are very promising candidates to participate as catalytic systems. Moreover, since biomass is the best, most abundant, and most economical renewable resource to be used as a raw material for such applications, and since it is a classical raw material for the synthesis of carbon structures, the utilization of advanced carbon-based catalysts for refinery applications could help to close the CO2 cycle, diminishing the carbon footprint.
In this Special Issue, original works and reviews dealing with all the different aspects of the design, preparation, characterization, and testing of different carbon-based materials for catalytic applications are welcome.
Dr. Miguel Angel Centeno
Prof. Dr. María Isabel Dominguez
Dr. Jose Luis Santos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon catalyst
- biomass
- carbon materials
- electrocatalysis
- biorefinery
- photocatalysis
- heterogenous catalysis
- nanocarbons
- graphene
- carbon nanotubes
- carbon-structured catalysts
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