New Materials for a Sustainable Future

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, we have witnessed a revolution in the development of sustainable materials with specific properties to satisfy given demands. Among these materials, carbon materials have had a great impact because of their tunable properties and wide range of applications. The strength of these materials is based not only on their performance with regard to the corresponding application but especially on the green approach followed during their synthesis (as compared to previous traditional methods) in terms of energy consumption, use of chemicals, environmental hazardous effects associated to processing conditions, carbon footprint, use of wastes, etc. Green economy principles and last world agreements in terms of environment and pollution demand competing methods in terms of minimization of impact, in the widest concept of the word.

This Special Issue will focus on the production and/or applications of carbon materials made in the frame of environmentally friendly methods and is open to seveal areas of research (biomass thermochemical processing, activated carbons, carbon supercondensers, etc.). The pieces of research submitted to this Special Issue will have to offer advantages in relation to already existing processing methods, related to the costs, ease of handling, improvements in terms of reduction of contamination or waste disposal, or lower energy input required.

Dr. Silvia Roman Suero
Guest Editor

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