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Carbon black reborn: Structure and chemistry for renewable energy harnessing
Carbon, Volume: 162, Pages: 604 - 649
Swansea University Authors:
Saeid Khodabakhshi, Enrico Andreoli
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.02.058
Abstract
Carbon Black (CB) is one of the most abundantly produced carbon nanostructured materials, and approximately 70% of it is used as pigment and as reinforcing phase in rubber and plastics. Recent scientific findings report on other uses of CB that are of current interest, such as renewable energy harve...
| Published in: | Carbon |
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| ISSN: | 0008-6223 1873-3891 |
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Elsevier BV
2020
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53847 |
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Carbon Black (CB) is one of the most abundantly produced carbon nanostructured materials, and approximately 70% of it is used as pigment and as reinforcing phase in rubber and plastics. Recent scientific findings report on other uses of CB that are of current interest, such as renewable energy harvesting and carbon capture. The present review focuses on the use and role of CB in renewable and environmental applications relevant to contemporary global challenges focusing specifically on clean energy. Key and recent research on the structure and chemistry of CB, including its uses as precursors to graphene quantum dots and hollow carbon spheres, is discussed in relation to renewable energy devices, electrochemical energy storage and environmental remediation. The surface chemistry of CB is closely related to that of graphitic and of turbostratic carbons through the predominant hexagonal carbon lattice from graphene fragments forming its basic structural units. Consequently, modern methods for grafting polymers and functional groups are easily translated to this abundant nanostructured material. Moreover, recent advances in electron microscopy that probe the structure of CB, and its electronic and physicochemical properties in nanocomposites revived the attention of what is wrongfully considered as a scientifically uninspiring material with limited potential for future technology breakthrough. CB has the potential to surge as a key player in renewable energy and environmental applications, meaning “When Black Turns Green”. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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EA wish to acknowledge the Reducing Industrial Carbon Emission (RICE) research operation funded by the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the Welsh Government. SK and EA also wish to thank the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council-Impact Acceleration Account (EPSRC-IAA) for providing funding to project code RIF67. SK wish to acknowledge funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 663830. |
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