Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2019, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (s1): 169-177.

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Thoughts on the Advances of Carbon Materials and Carbocatalysis

LU An-Hui, HAO Guang-Ping, WENG Xuefei   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, Liaoning, China
  • Online:2019-12-17 Published:2019-10-10
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    This work was supported by the State Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21733002) and the Joint Si-no-German Research Project (21761132011).

Abstract: In the field of carbocatalysis, the main challenges include (1) the quantitative determination of active sites, and the unveiling of the nature and mechanism of the catalysis process; (2) the controllable and scalable preparation of carbon-based catalysts with high density active sites; (3) the catalyst engineering and catalysis process design remain in its infancy, the integrated process on adsorption-catalysis and cataly-sis-separation, aiming to upgrading catalysis process and improving catalysis efficiency, needs to be strengthened. In this minireview, we briefly overviewed the latest advances on carbon materials and carbocatalysis, which include structural design of nanostructured car-bon-based catalysts, their applications in typical thermocatalysis and electrocatalysis as well as the analysis of active sites and disclosure of catalytic mechanisms. Finally, our perspectives on the research trend of future carbocatalysis was given.

Key words: carbon materials, heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, catalyst support, carbocatalysis