Carbon Nanomaterials as Sorbent

Dear Colleagues,

Carbon-based materials have been used as sorbents by humans since ancient times. Currently, activated carbon is one of the most efficient and most broadly used materials for sorbing gases and organic compounds. At the same time, its efficiency toward different substances is not equally high. The search for new sorbents for particular species, such as specific radionuclides, carbon dioxide, bioactive materials, etc., is ongoing. Recent decades have witnessed intense research with newly discovered/developed nanostructured forms of carbon.

In this Special Issue, we intentionally keep the term “carbon nanomaterials” maximally broad. The border between nanostructured and bulk forms is often foggy. For example, graphene oxide can be considered a nanomaterial when in the exfoliated condition in solution, and it is a lamellar bulk material when in the solid form. Even the distinctively nanostructured form of carbon materials, such as carbon nanotubes, when in macroscopic quantities, are simply a black powder similar to carbon black. From another perspective, typical forms of bulk carbon materials often have nanostructured fragments in their body.

We also keep this issue broad with respect to the adsorbates. Sorbing different adsorbates in different media requires different surface configurations and chemical compositions. This Special Issue is devoted to the most recent developments in the field of sorption by nanostructured carbon materials.

Dr. Ayrat M. Dimiev
Guest Editor

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