Recent advances: Biomass-derived porous carbon materials
South African Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2023 Biomass-derived porous carbon materials are a new type of popular environmentally friendly materials that have attracted researchers worldwide attention due to their well-developed and easy control pore structure, high specific surface area, higher ...
Bakhytzhan Lesbayev +6 more
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Effect of surface modification on single-walled carbon nanotube retention and transport in saturated and unsaturated porous media [PDF]
, 2012 This work investigated the effect of different surface modification methods, including oxidization, surfactant coating, and humic acid coating, on single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) stability and their mobility in granular porous media under various ...
Gao, Bin +4 more
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Transition-metal-based electrocatalysts for hydrazine-assisted hydrogen production
Materials Today Advances, 2020 Electrocatalytic water splitting is considered as the next-generation strategy for large-scale ultrapure hydrogen production. However, the high thermodynamic potential (1.23 V vs.
H. Liu, Y. Liu, M. Li, X. Liu, J. Luo
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Pore engineering: Structure-capacitance correlations for biomass-derived porous carbon materials
Materials & Design, 2023 As the world’s demand for green energy storage systems continues to increase, electrochemical double-layer supercapacitors based on porous carbon electrodes are receiving more attention than ever.
Bing Yan +8 more
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Spark plasma sintered carbon electrodes for electrical double layer capacitor applications [PDF]
, 2011 The spark plasma sintering (SPS) is an emerging process for shaping any type of materials (metals, ceramic, polymers and their composites). The advantage of such a process is to prepare densified ceramic materials in a very short time, while keeping the ...
Chevallier, Geoffroy +3 more
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Tailoring nanoporous structures of Ge anodes for stable potassium-ion batteries
Electrochemistry Communications, 2019 We present here for the first time the electrochemical behavior of germanium anodes in potassium-ion batteries (KIBs). Nanoporous germanium (np-Ge) samples were fabricated by the chemical-dealloying method using Al as the sacrificial metal. Galvanostatic
Qing Yang +3 more
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Carbon Capture Using Porous Silica Materials
Nanomaterials, 2023 As the primary greenhouse gas, CO2 emission has noticeably increased over the past decades resulting in global warming and climate change. Surprisingly, anthropogenic activities have increased atmospheric CO2 by 50% in less than 200 years, causing more frequent and severe rainfall, snowstorms, flash floods, droughts, heat waves, and rising sea levels ...
Sumedha M. Amaraweera +5 more
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Preparation of controlled porosity carbon aerogels for energy storage in rechargeable lithium oxygen batteries [PDF]
, 2009 Porous carbon aerogels are prepared by polycondensation of resorcinol and formaldehyde catalyzed by sodium carbonate followed by carbonization of the resultant aerogels in an inert atmosphere. Pore structure of carbon aerogels is adjusted by changing the
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Composite nanostructured solid-acid fuel-cell electrodes via electrospray deposition [PDF]
, 2010 Stable, porous, nanostructured composite electrodes were successfully fabricated via the inexpensive and scalable method of electrospray deposition, in which a dissolved solute is deposited onto a substrate using an electric field to drive droplet ...
Brunelli, Nicholas A. +4 more
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Biomass-derived carbon materials for energy storage applications [PDF]
, 2021 Energy storage systems are an essential link in the implementation of renewable energies and in the development of electric vehicles, which are needed to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and the emission of greenhouse gases.
Gómez Martín, Aurora
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