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Taís dos Santos da Cruz, Walker Vinícius Ferreira do Carmo Batista, Eduarda Ferreira de Oliveira, Wanessa Lima de Oliveira, Dilton Martins Pimentel, Gabriel Ali Atta Diab, Ivo Freitas Teixeira, Marcio César Pereira and João Paulo de Mesquita

Cyamelurate anions obtained from the hydrolysis of polymeric graphitic carbon nitride were used for the preparation of a water-stable and crystalline coordination polymer based on nickel(II)–cyamelurate. The polymer was prepared and applied as a catalyst ... see more

Saeed Alhawtali, Mohanad El-Harbawi, Lahssen El Blidi, Maher M. Alrashed, Abdulrahman Alzobidi and Chun-Yang Yin

The removal of lead metals from wastewater was carried out with carbon microspheres (CMs) prepared from date palm leaflets using a hydrothermal carbonization process (HTC). The prepared CMs were subsequently activated with phosphoric acid using the incipi... see more

Danny Otto and Nils Matzner

In recent years, research on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has significantly increased. Numerous studies have analyzed demonstration projects, outlined scenarios, modeled pathways, or focused on CDR’s national or international governance. However, regional... see more

Matteo Strozzi, Isaac E. Elishakoff, Michele Bochicchio, Marco Cocconcelli, Riccardo Rubini and Enrico Radi

In this study, a new anisotropic elastic shell model with a nonlocal strain gradient is developed to investigate the vibrations of simply supported single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The Sanders–Koiter shell theory is used to obtain strain–displacem... see more

Ewa Gabriel, Anna Olejnik, Bogna Sztorch, Milosz Frydrych, Olga Czerwinska, Robert Pietrzak and Robert E. Przekop

The following work presents a method for obtaining PLA composites with activated carbon modified using the liquid for fused deposition modeling (L-FDM) method in which two different compounds, i.e., rhodamine and antipyrine, are introduced. Tablets satura... see more

Athanasia K. Tolkou, Konstantinos N. Maroulas, Dimitrios Theologis, Ioannis A. Katsoyiannis and George Z. Kyzas

Wastewater treatment has attracted much attention in recent years as a potential source of water, and there are some concerns about its safety for human use. Eco-friendly and cost-effective adsorbent materials were successfully synthesized from several pe... see more

Giuseppe Ruscica, Fabio Peinetti, Isabella Natali Sora and Patrizia Savi

Biochar (bio-charcoal) is a low-cost and eco-friendly material. It can be obtained by thermochemical conversion of different biomass sources, for example, in the total absence of oxygen (pyrolysis) or in oxygen-limited atmosphere (gasification). The porou... see more

James A. Behan and Frédéric Barrière

Polypyrrole films are commonly prepared as conductive electrode surfaces for a variety of applications. Recently, there has been increasing interest in improving the adhesive properties and biocompatibility of polypyrrole electrodes via the incorporation ... see more

Batuhan Mulla, Kyriacos Ioannou, Gkerman Kotanidis, Ioannis Ioannidis, Georgios Constantinides, Mark Baker, Steven Hinder, Christian Mitterer, Ioannis Pashalidis, Nikolaos Kostoglou and Claus Rebholz

The removal of contaminants from aqueous solutions by adsorption onto carbonaceous materials has attracted increasing interest in recent years. In this study, pristine and oxidized activated carbon (AC) fabrics with different surface textures and porosity... see more

Ken-ichi Sasaki, Kenichi Hitachi, Masahiro Kamada, Takamoto Yokosawa, Taisuke Ochi and Tomohiro Matsui

Monolayer graphene absorbs 2.3 percent of the incident visible light. This “small” absorption has been used to emphasize the visual transparency of graphene, but it in fact means that multilayer graphene absorbs a sizable fraction of incident light, which... see more

Prakash Giri, Irwin Gill, Morgan Swensgard, Alexandra Kaiser, Audrey Rust, Brian Stuparyk, Andrew Fisher, Justice Williams, Katie Renoit, Eleanor Kreeb, Corentin Lavenan and Mark J. Schulz

A carbon nanotube (CNT) sheet is a nonwoven fabric that is being evaluated for use in different textile applications. Several properties of pristine CNT sheets and CNT sheets coated with a polysilazane sealant and coating were measured and compared in the... see more

Bruno Alderete, Frank Mücklich and Sebastian Suarez

The rise in electrification has considerably increased the demand for high-efficiency and durable electrical contact materials. Carbon nanoparticles (CNP) are a promising coating material due to their intrinsic transport properties (thus minimizing the im... see more

Md Ainul Kabir, Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan and Golam Kabir

The technology called carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is important for capturing CO2 emissions before they enter the air. Because everyone wants to stop global warming by reducing CO2 emissions, CCUS is an important and emerging technology... see more

Jagdish Narayan

We present the atomic structures and nonequilibrium synthesis of a new class of materials, where the basic structural unit is a diamond tetrahedron. When units of one, two, and three tetrahedra are randomly packed, we create distinct phases of amorphous Q... see more

Neeraj Gupta, Ilaria Barlocco, Oleksiy Khavryuchenko and Alberto Villa

Nitrogen-rich carbon nanotubes NCNT700 and NCNT800 were prepared using the chemical vapor deposition method (CVD). The catalysts were characterized via high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) ana... see more

Chengwei Zhou, Fan Wu, Yonggong Tang, Boyuan Chai, Jiaxin Liang, Jiangang Han, Weinan Xing, Yudong Huang and Guangyu Wu

Photocatalytic carbon dioxide conversion is a promising method for generating carbon fuels, in which the most important thing is to adjust the catalyst material to improve the photocatalytic efficiency and selectivity to conversion products, but it is sti... see more

Jesús Noé Rivera Olvera, Luis Hernández Maya and Lucia Graciela Diaz Barriga Arceo

In the present work, the synthesis and decomposition of low-dimensional materials from a Ni15" role="presentation">1515 15 Mo25" role="presentation">2525 25 W10" role="presentation">1010 10 C50" role="presentation">5050 50 system produced by mechanical a... see more

Xiaohu Zhou, Xiaochen Liu, Linlin Sun, Xinyu Jia, Fei Tian, Yueqin Liu and Zhansheng Wu

Biochar is a biomaterial obtained by pyrolysis with high porosity and high specific surface area (SSA), which is widely used in several fields. The yield of biochar has an important effect on production cost and utilization efficiency, while SSA plays a k... see more

Jean-Luc Meunier, Jeanne Ouellet, Kaustubh Basu, Alessio Aufoujal, Richard Boudreault and Jason Robert Tavares

A simple method is presented for the continuous generation of carbon nanotube forests stably anchored on stainless-steel surfaces using a reactive-roll-to-roll (RR2R) configuration. No addition of catalyst nanoparticles is required for the CNT-forest gene... see more

Manish Kumar Gautam, Tamal Mondal, Rupashri Nath, Bidhan Mahajon, Mukesh Chincholikar, Anirbandeep Bose, Dibya Das, Rakesh Das and Sandip Mondal

Water contamination is a pervasive global crisis, affecting over 2 billion people worldwide, with pharmaceutical contaminants emerging as a significant concern due to their persistence and mobility in aquatic ecosystems. This review explores the potential... see more

Yibo Cui, Luoyi Liu, Mengna Shi, Yuhao Wang, Xiaokai Meng, Yanjun Chen, Que Huang and Changcheng Liu

Graphene quantum dot (GQD) is a new type of carbon nanometer material. In addition to the excellent properties of graphene, it is superior due to the quantum limit effect and edge effect. Because of its advantages such as water solution, strong fluorescen... see more

Simeng Li, Desarae Tasnady, Shannon Skelley, Blanca Calderon and Sherine Jiang

In recent times, biochar has emerged as a promising and sustainable solution for COD reduction in wastewater treatment. This study explores the potential of chemically modified biochars as efficient adsorbents for the removal of organic contaminants, spec... see more

Raffaella Soave, Fausto Cargnoni and Mario Italo Trioni

We conducted a large set of ab initio density functional theory computations to model a variety of hammer-terminated graphene nanoflakes—finite counterparts of armchair graphene nanoribbons. We focused on the relationships among the length and width of th... see more

Jobair Al Rafi, Yu Kanda, Mitsuhiro Honda and Yo Ichikawa

The hybrid structure of Graphene and ZnO (Graphene/ZnO) is emerging as a novel material used to achieve the high performance of photocatalysis. In this study, we examined the ZnO characteristics that affect the photocatalytic activity of graphene/ZnO usin... see more

Marie Colin, Hani Farhat, Sam Chen, Elodie Petit, Emmanuel Flahaut, Katia Guérin and Marc Dubois

Sulphur-doped graphene was fluorinated using molecular fluorine (F2). First, the fluorination conditions were adapted in order to be mild enough to maintain S in the carbon lattice and form S-F bonds. An unusually weakened C-F bonding for an F/C ratio of ... see more

Jafar Sufian, Mohammad Babaakbari Sari, Filippo Marchelli, Luca Fiori, Armen Avanes and Salahedin Moradi

Chlorella vulgaris is an inexpensive microalga that could be employed for environmental remediation, but further investigations are needed to assess its suitability and optimal treatment methodology. With this aim in mind, this study focused on the raw bi... see more

Lin Ge, Sharath Chandra, Talha Zafar and Simon S. Park

The considerable expenses associated with carbon fiber (CF) production have imposed limitations on its widespread application across diverse industries, primarily due to the costs of precursor materials and energy-intensive post-treatment procedures. This... see more