Porous carbon materials are at the heart of many energy-related and environmental applications. This themed issue in Journal of Materials Chemistry A covers all aspects of the recent exciting progress in the field, including the synthesis, functionalization, nanostructure, characterization, and application of porous carbons.
Guest editors An-Hui Lu and Sheng Dai introduce the issue in their editorial. The full issue can be found here.
Below is a sample of the Papers, Communications, Highlights and Feature Articles that can be found in the porous carbon materials themed issue:
Feature Articles
Functionalization of porous carbons for catalytic applications
José Luís Figueiredo
Advanced porous carbon electrodes for electrochemical capacitors
Li Li Zhang, Yi Gu and X. S. Zhao
Highlights
Dynamic electrosorption analysis: a viable liquid-phase characterization method for porous carbon?
Chi Cheng, Junwu Zhu, Xiaowei Yang, Ling Qiu, Yufei Wang and Dan Li
Communications
Salt and sugar: direct synthesis of high surface area carbon materials at low temperatures via hydrothermal carbonization of glucose under hypersaline conditions
Nina Fechler, Stephanie-Angelika Wohlgemuth, Philipp Jäker and Markus Antonietti
Papers
Synthesis of hierarchical porous carbons for supercapacitors from coal tar pitch with nano-Fe2O3 as template and activation agent coupled with KOH activation
Xiaojun He, Nan Zhao, Jieshan Qiu, Nan Xiao, Moxin Yu, Chang Yu, Xiaoyong Zhang and Mingdong Zheng
Preparation of a freestanding, macroporous reduced graphene oxide film as an efficient and recyclable sorbent for oils and organic solvents
Seung Jae Yang, Jong Hun Kang, Haesol Jung, Taehoon Kim and Chong Rae Park
Magnetic hollow carbon nanospheres for removal of chromium ions
Lu-Hua Zhang, Qiang Sun, Dong-Hai Liu and An-Hui Lu
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