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Carbon allotropes for sustainable applications

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The global energy crisis and environmental problem caused by fossil fuels and human activities are serious concern and has attracted research in environmentally friendly renewable resources. The utilization of carbocatalysts are favorable alternative to combat global energy and environmental concerns, for example carbon-based materials as adsorbents, supportive heterogeneous catalyst, electrocatalysts, and storage energy etc., Platinum group supported carbo-catalysts promotes various chemical reactions, hydrogenation reactions, oxidation reactions, wet catalytic oxidation, redox reactions, organic transformations, acid/base catalysts, including PMS activation etc., Supported metal/metal oxides (hybrid composites) for promising green remediation applications. The utilization of carbonaceous metal-free catalysts is earth abundant, nontoxic, economical, and alternative green technology for advanced oxidation processes to overcome noxious metal leaching. There has been growing interest graphene is a 2-dimensional monolayer of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms, which has gained interest, as it has excellent physical and chemical properties. The unique physical properties, excellent electronic mobility, and heteroatoms integration in sp2 carbon matrix including the active sites/high specific area can be easily accessible for the catalytic processes. The rational design of carbon-based materials for catalytic environmental remediation great attention in the recent years. Here, we focus energy and green remediation using heterogeneous carbo-catalysts and their future scope. Carbon based materials are highly topical in both academic and commercial research due to their promise as disruptive technologies for energy and environmental remediation, and for solar fuels production as a source of renewable hydrogen for sustainable chemical transformations etc., While there have been significant advances in material design/architecture for catalytic processes, notably energy and environmental remediation. The development of economical, earth abundant and high active carbon materials has progressed in large part through empirical approaches to the discovery of new materials and great interest for material chemistry, material physicist, environmental and nanoscience communities etc., This special issue will include reviews, minireviews, and original research articles with outstanding quality, significant contribution, and high impact on the research field. We strongly believe that this special issue would be interesting to the broad readers on a global perspective and contribute to the implementation of the carbocatalysts in various sectors. The scope of this special issue covers, but not limit to, the following topics:

• The allotropes of carbon and their properties.

• 1D,2D and 3D carbon nanostructures for Energy and Environmental Applications.

• Theoretical concepts of carbon-based materials.

• Tunable band gap of graphene-based composite for redox environmental applications.

• Surface modified graphitic and nanocarbon for PMS redox reaction in wastewater treatment applications.

• CVD graphene nanostructures: preparation and Environmental applications.

• Magnetic properties of carbon-based materials for Environmental remediation.

• Synthesis and characterization of carbon quantum dots and application in energy and environment.

• Graphitic carbon nitride-based materials for sustainable applications

• Next generation porous carbon composite for energy and emerging applications

• Heteroatom doped carbon-based materials for Energy and environmental applications

• The next generation graphene for wastewater treatment.

• Heterogeneous carbon mineral composites for Environmental applications.

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