Porous Carbon Fiber
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Carbon Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2023) | Viewed by 334
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Porous carbon fiber holds great promise in the development of advanced applications in energy and environmental areas due to its outstanding properties, such as large specific surface area, great pore volume, hierarchical porosity, numerous spaces for storage as well as 1D configuration. More importantly, with the improvement in pore-making technology and the deeper understanding of the mechanism of performance improvement in different fields, more innovative porous carbon fibers have been synthesised and offer exciting opportunities for functionalizing materials, accessing more active sites, and facilitating mass transport/diffusion with a spectrum of interesting and remarkable properties. At the same time, some weaknesses of porous carbon fiber are also increasingly being discovered, and researchers are carrying out a tremendous amount of work to overcome these challenges.
This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in porous carbon fiber, focusing on the emerging trends, both in structure–property characteristics and in the mechanisms of boosting the performance of porous structures. Original papers may address the following themes, without being limited to them: porous structure design, novel precursor development, processing strategies of porous carbon fiber, advanced characterisation techniques, surface modification and guest material loading approaches, defect engineering, physicochemical property improvement, mechanism analysis and innovative applications of porous carbon fibers. Comparative studies regarding the merits and demerits of porous carbon fiber in various fields are also welcome.
I kindly invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Dr. Quanxiang Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- porous carbon fiber
- processing
- structure design
- mechanism analysis
- property development
- advanced applications
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