Colorants are widely employed in the food industry as an essential ingredient in many
products since color is one of the most valued attributes by consumers. Furthermore, the …

Tannins as herbal extracts are a good alternative for green chemistry. They are found
aplenty in some plant species and can be extracted by simple methods. The tannins main …

Porous structure design is generally considered to be a reliable strategy to boost ion
transport and provide active sites for disordered carbon anodes of Na‐ion batteries (NIBs) …

Cork, a porous biomass material, is consist of thin-walled hollow prismatic cells arranged
into a compact and orderly honeycomb-like structure and could be applied as an adsorption …

Herein, the cork activated carbon (CAC) with excellent adsorption performance for cationic
dye, anionic dye, and mixed dye was obtained by a two-step pyrolysis method. The CAC …

For the first time the feasibility of using an alkaline wastewater coming from the pulp and
paper industry as an activator, partially (50 vol%) replacing commercial sodium hydroxide, in …

It can be said that most of the garbage were misplaced resources. And how to turn these
resources into valuable products is extremely important. In this study, the cork wine stoppers …

Biomass waste, an attractive renewable carbon source, has great potential for carbon
reduction. In recent years, high-performance porous carbon materials prepared from …

Cork is light, porous, carbon-rich, and renewable, which leads to competitive advantages in
the preparation of biochar, as compared to other biomass material. In this work, we propose …

There is a growing interest in the utilisation of biomass for a range of applications. Coupled
with this is the appeal of improving the circular economy and as such, there is a focus on …