Agricultural Product-Derived Carbon for Energy, Sensing, and Environmental Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Carbon is one of the most versatile materials used in modern life for human welfare. It has wide applications such as drug delivery, coating, energy generation and storage, gas separation, water purification, sensor fabrication, catalysis, and so on. Most of the widely used carbon materials are graphene and carbon nanotubes. The high cost and toxic chemicals used during their preparation limit their practical applications. Besides these, agriculture-derived carbon is another attractive material. However, the success of its practical application partially depends on their properties such as size, shape, porosity, presence of heteroatoms—which can be controlled by selecting proper type of biomass—activating agent, preparation methods, and so on. This Special Issue aims at encouraging researchers to address the preparation, characterization, and application of different types of carbon materials  from agriculture products including agro-waste, their characterizations and applications in energy, sensing, catalytic, environmental, oil and gas applications.

Dr. Md. Abdul Aziz
Guest Editor

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