The advance of materials chemistry has influenced significantly the lifestyle of mankind. By
virtue of their fascinating physicochemical nature–including ultrasmall size (< 10 nm), rich …

Biogas is a renewable energy source like solar and wind energies and mostly produced
from anaerobic digestion (AD). The production of biogas is a well-established technology …

Carbon (C) is a crucial material for many branches of modern technology. A growing number
of demanding applications in electronics and telecommunications rely on the unique …

From carbides in steel to cobalt–carbon covalent bonds in vitamin B 12, transition metal (TM)–
carbon interactions play a critical role in so many aspects of human life that we rarely realize …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been under scientific investigation for more than fifteen
years because of their unique properties that predestine them for many potential …

In the past decade, nanoscale solid materials have become very important because of their
special properties, 1, 2 and the nanomaterials field has gained increasing attention from …

Microwave‐assisted synthesis and processing represents a growing field in materials
research and successfully entered the field of carbon nanomaterials during the last decade …

Since their discovery in 1991 by the Japanese scientist “Sumio Iijima”, carbon nanotubes
have been of great interest, both from a fundamental point of view and for future …

A highly effective hydroxylated-functionalization of carbon fibres for use as electrodes of all-
vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) was developed. Carbon paper made of carbon fibres …

Due to the intensive and multidisciplinary research carried out during the last two decades
on carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the scientific community understands nowadays much better …