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Porous Carbon Materials: Preparation and Application, 2nd Edition

A Special Issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049) belonging to the section "Applied Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 1606

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is devoted to publishing original research papers and comprehensive reviews that address the latest developments in the preparation, characterization, and applications of porous carbon materials. Submissions related to any aspect of the chemistry and technology of porous carbon materials and relevant applications are encouraged. Contributions that discuss examples of formation behaviors, structural evolution, the properties of porous carbon materials, and the applications of catalysis, coatings, electronics, sensors, energy storage, environmental science, medicine, nuclear materials, and structural materials are welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Activated carbon;
  • Activated carbon fibers;
  • Mesoporous carbon;
  • Carbon molecular sieves;
  • Porous graphite;
  • Other porous carbon materials and their applications;
  • Other novel carbon materials and their applications.

Dr. Jianxiao Yang
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Keywords

  • porous carbon materials
  • energy storage
  • environmental science
  • sensors
  • adsorption
  • catalysis

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Magnetite-Doped Activated Carbon Beads and Powder Derived from Chitosan for Adsorption of Emerging Contaminants in Drinkable Water
by Nirav P. Raval, Laurence Reinert, Laurent Duclaux, Nathalie Cottin, Noriko Yoshizawa, Jimmy Nicolle, Anandu Chandran and Fabrice Muller
Molecules 2025, 30(22), 4443; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30224443 - 18 Nov 2025
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Activated carbon beads, some of which contain Fe3O4 nanoparticles or graphene oxide, were synthesized by thermal activation (700 °C) of chitosan hydrogel beads. Materials showed a multiporous scale (micro/meso/macro) and BET specific surface areas in the 260–572 m2.g [...] Read more.
Activated carbon beads, some of which contain Fe3O4 nanoparticles or graphene oxide, were synthesized by thermal activation (700 °C) of chitosan hydrogel beads. Materials showed a multiporous scale (micro/meso/macro) and BET specific surface areas in the 260–572 m2.g−1 range. The adsorption kinetics of beads and powders resulting from their grinding were studied for a mixture of six micropollutants (bisphenol A, carbofuran, carbamazepine, diclofenac, dimethoate and imidacloprid) dissolved in spring water. While the adsorption kinetics on the beads (pH 7.3, 25 °C, 10–100 µg.L−1) are slow (equilibrium time > 24 h), the powdered samples are more efficient: for an initial concentration of 50 μg.L−1 of each pollutant (0.1 g.L−1 of adsorbent), 50 to 99% of the micropollutants introduced into the solution were removed after 4 h of contact time. Depending on the pollutant nature, the adsorption isotherms (0.2–40 μg.L−1) studied for an activated carbon powder containing Fe3O4 (1 mass %) are either of Langmuir or Freundlich type, or they follow Henry’s law and are related to the different properties of the molecules. Full article
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