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Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage

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The characterization approach is one of the most challenging aspects of researching carbon-based nanomaterials, particularly carbon-based catalysts with defects and atomically dispersion. It's difficult to precisely identify the active sites of catalysts using early characterization approaches, which makes disclosing the catalytic mechanism and constructing high-efficiency catalysts challenging. High-efficiency carbon-based catalysts have improved in recent years, thanks to extensive use of current characterization techniques (e.g., ex-situ, in-situ, and operando) and simulation calculation approaches (e.g., first-principles and molecular dynamics simulation calculations). This chapter emphasizes the characterization methodologies that reveal the true active sites, catalytic processes, and structure–activity relationships of carbon-based nanomaterials from three perspectives: direct visualization, indirect validation, and simulation calculations.

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Chen, M., Xue, D., Lu, BA. (2022). Characterization. In: Zhang, JN. (eds) Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 325. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4625-7_3

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