Biomass-derived carbon: synthesis and applications in energy storage and conversion
The explosive growth of energy consumption demands highly efficient energy conversion and storage devices, whose innovation greatly depends on the development of advanced electrode materials and catalysts. Among those advanced materials explored, carbon materials have drawn much attention due to the...
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| Published in | Green chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC Vol. 18; no. 18; pp. 4824 - 4854 |
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| Main Authors | , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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01.01.2016
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| Summary: | The explosive growth of energy consumption demands highly efficient energy conversion and storage devices, whose innovation greatly depends on the development of advanced electrode materials and catalysts. Among those advanced materials explored, carbon materials have drawn much attention due to their excellent properties, such as high specific surface area and tunable porous structures. Challenges also come from global warming and environmental pollution, which leads to the requirement of sustainable carbon-rich precursors for carbon materials. Hence, the use of biomass for carbon materials features the concepts of green chemistry. This review summarizes the most advanced progress in biomass-derived carbons for use in fuel cells, electrocatalytic water splitting devices, supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries. Several synthetic strategies for synthesizing biomass-derived carbons, including direct pyrolysis, hydrothermal carbonization, and ionothermal carbonization, have been reviewed, and the corresponding formation mechanisms and prospects are also discussed. This provides fundamental insight and offers important guidelines for the future design of biomass-derived carbons in specific energy applications.
Plenty of biomass has served as raw materials in the synthesis of various carbon materials, which provide possibilities to satisfy different applications in the area of energy. |
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| Bibliography: | Jiang Deng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Advanced Materials and Catalysis Group at Zhejiang University under the direction of Prof. Yong Wang. He received his B.S. degree from Guangxi University in 2013. His current research includes the synthesis and processing of carbon-based nanomaterials and their applications in electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices. Mingming Li studied at Xinjiang University and received his B.S. degree in 2012. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, under the supervision of Prof. Yong Wang. His current research interests are on functional carbon nanomaterials and their applications as catalyst supports for catalytic hydrogenation and oxidation reactions. Prof. Dr Yong Wang studied chemical engineering at Xiangtan University from 1998 to 2002. He received his Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University in 2007. After a postdoctoral stay at the Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam/Germany in 2009. He rejoined Zhejiang University and became a Professor for Chemistry in 2011. His research focuses on carbon nanomaterials and their applications in heterogeneous catalysis and energy storage and conversion. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1463-9262 1463-9270 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c6gc01172a |