Surface modification of carbon materials and its application as adsorbents

CH Kwak, C Lim, S Kim, YS Lee - Journal of Industrial and Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon materials are widely used industrially as an adsorbent for purification to remove
pollutants. Carbon materials are known to have excellent adsorption efficiency for ionic …

Oxygen-rich functionalized porous carbon by KMnO4 activation on pods of Prosopis juliflora for symmetric supercapacitors

K Vignesh, M Ganeshbabu, NPN Puneeth… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The need for energy storage devices with low-cost electrode material is predominant in
joining the race to meet the energy crisis. The present work aims to turn the invasive weed …

Facile oxygen doped heterojunction structured hybrid particles with γ-aluminium oxide dispersed over graphitic carbon nitride for dehydrogenation of sodium …

C Saka - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
It is important to develop new metal-free catalysts that are both low-cost and environmentally
friendly with high performance. Recently, heterojunction catalysts have been used more …

Tailoring surface carboxyl groups of mesoporous carbon boosts electrochemical H2O2 production

C Zhang, G Liu, Q Long, C Wu, L Wang - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Oxygen-doped porous carbon materials have been shown promising performance for
electrochemical two-electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e− ORR), an efficient approach for …

Effect of biochar chemical modification (acid, base and hydrogen peroxide) on contaminants content depending on feedstock and pyrolysis conditions

M Hawryluk-Sidoruk, M Raczkiewicz… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The effect of biochars (BCs) chemical modifications on the content of various contaminants
is poorly studied and understood, despite the fact that such results would be important in …

Three‐dimensional nanoporous activated carbon electrode derived from acacia wood for high‐performance supercapacitor

HA Hamouda, HI Abdu, Q Hu, MA Abubaker… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Herein, the novel acacia wood based hierarchical porous activated carbons (AWCs) are
easily prepared, low cost and have excellent characterization, such as special biomass …

Metal-free catalyst fabrication by incorporating oxygen groups on the surface of the carbonaceous sample and efficient hydrogen production from NaBH4 …

C Saka, A Balbay - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present study, metal-free catalysts for efficient H 2 generation from NaBH 4
methanolysis was produced for the first time from apricot kernel shells with two-step …

Carbon dioxide adsorbents from flame-made diesel soot nanoparticles

GDJG Peña, KSK Reddy, AM Varghese… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is the top contributor to global warming. On the other, soot particles
formed during fuel combustion and released into the atmosphere are harmful and also …

Characteristics of coconut shell-based activated carbon as Ni and Pt catalyst supports for hydrotreating Calophyllum inophyllum oil into hydrocarbon-based biofuel

W Trisunaryanti, K Wijaya, T Triyono… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Being massively produced as waste, coconut shell brings an excellent advantage to being a
source of carbon for preparing a high-performing low-cost catalyst. In this study, the …

Role of persistent free radicals and lewis acid sites in visible-light-driven wet peroxide activation by solid acid biochar catalysts–A mechanistic study

G Rangarajan, R Farnood - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
We report the synthesis of H 2 SO 4-modified biochars (SBCs) as solid-acid catalysts to
activate H 2 O 2 at circumneutral pH under visible light radiation. Spent coffee grinds were …