Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Highly Efficient Catalysis

Dear Colleagues,

The rise in global demand for green chemistry and sustainable development has driven an immense research interest in the fundamental science of catalysis. Carbon-based nanomaterials offer unconventional ways for their catalytic applications to address some of the new challenges deriving from moving to a more sustainable future. Therefore, carbon-based carbocatalysis, considered an ideal and potential industrial technology, has emerged as a new frontier and hot point in modern catalysis science.

Carbon materials (e.g., amorphous carbon, carbon quantum dot, fullerene, carbon nanotube, graphene, graphyne, nanodiamond, and their derivatives) exhibit a high surface area, excellent stability, and unique mechanical and electronic properties, which conventional materials cannot match. In addition, their physical and chemical properties can be further modulated by modification and functionalization. Due to these unique characteristics, carbon-based nanomaterials exhibit high performance and have been successfully used in a variety of catalytic applications. Nanocarbon and its derivatives could be key elements in the development of next‐generation catalytic materials, but this goal requires us to overcome some of the actual limits in current research.

The present Special Issue of Nanomaterials is aimed at presenting the unique properties of carbon-based nanomaterials catalysis and giving a balanced view of the current state of the art in this discipline. We welcome submissions to this Special Issue, “Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Highly Efficient Catalysis”, in the form of original research papers, reviews, or communications that highlight the recent progress and advance of carbon-based nanomaterials and their applications in the field of catalysis.

Prof. Dr. Jiangbo Xi
Prof. Dr. Junwu Xiao
Prof. Dr. Fei Xiao
Guest Editors

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