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Porous Carbons: Design, Versatile Applications, and Future Perspectives

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 1773

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Department of Inorganic Chemical Technology and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Technology and Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
Interests: carbon materials; adsorption; catalysis; modification; functionalisation; properties; separation; energy storage; activation; gas capture; surface chemistry

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Physical Science Math and Engineering Division, Foothill College, Los Altos, CA, USA
Interests: analytical chemistry and materials analysis; nanoscience and nanotechnology; surface engineering of highly porous materials for carbon dioxide capture and enrichment
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Dear Colleagues,

Porous carbon materials have industrial importance in gas and water purification, carbon capture, and other important medical applications. A combination of chemistry and materials engineering is pushing new performance, especially through enhanced surface area and pore volume engineering, surface modification, and new analytical approaches to modeling kinetics and thermodynamics of adsorption and desorption. This Special Issue will focus on new developments and applications in porous carbon materials, including novel nanostructured carbon.

Dr. Iwona Pełech
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Robert Cormia
Guest Editor Assistant

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Keywords

  • porous carbon
  • activated carbon
  • gas adsorption
  • surface chemistry
  • pore volume
  • engineering
  • environmental separation

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CO2 Adsorption Study of Potassium-Based Activation of Carbon Spheres
by Iwona Pełech, Piotr Staciwa, Daniel Sibera, Robert Pełech, Konrad S. Sobczuk, Gulsen Yagmur Kayalar, Urszula Narkiewicz and Robert Cormia
Molecules 2022, 27(17), 5379; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27175379 - 23 Aug 2022
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Abstract
The adsorption properties of microporous spherical carbon materials obtained from the resorcinol-formaldehyde resin, treated in a solvothermal reactor heated with microwaves and then subjected to carbonization, are presented. The potassium-based activation of carbon spheres was carried out in two ways: solution-based and solid-based [...] Read more.
The adsorption properties of microporous spherical carbon materials obtained from the resorcinol-formaldehyde resin, treated in a solvothermal reactor heated with microwaves and then subjected to carbonization, are presented. The potassium-based activation of carbon spheres was carried out in two ways: solution-based and solid-based methods. The effect of various factors, such as chemical agent selection, chemical activating agent content, and the temperature or time of activation, was investigated. The influence of microwave treatment on the adsorption properties was also investigated and described. The adsorption performance of carbon spheres was evaluated in detail by examining CO2 adsorption from the gas phase. Full article
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