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Carbon-Based Functional Materials Derived from Fibrous Wastes

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Advanced Multifunctional Materials from Fibrous Structures

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The accumulation of feedstock fibrous materials as wastes for industries has led to the growing need for techno-economic and sustainable methods to utilize these fibrous wastes in various forms, towards favorable areas of applications. Over the years, numerous efforts have been taken to obtain carbon-based materials in its various allotropic forms from both natural and synthetic sources of fibrous wastes. Fibrous wastes are processed through varying conditions of pyrolysis, stabilization (if required), carbonization, or graphitization to obtain carbon rich materials, which then may be activated (physical or chemical activation) to obtain activated carbon fibers, with multifunctional properties such as high surface area, variable pore size and volume, chemical inertness and stability, electrical and thermal conductivity; envisioned for potential scope in various applications such as adsorption of contaminants, supercapacitors and batteries, water filters (removal of chlorine, organic matter, etc.), surface treatment liquid cleaning, and gas phase applications (deodorization/volatile organic compound (VOC) adsorption). Fibrous adsorbents have the advantages of fast adsorption rate and ease of handling when compared with granular adsorbents and powdered adsorbents. Activated carbon fiber (ACF) is a promising microporous material with a fiber shape and well-defined porous structure. In general, ACF can be commercially manufactured from synthetic carbon fiber (CF) with an additional activation process. Processing of activated carbon fibers from various precursors involves the same steps as conducted in the preparation of traditional carbon fiber except for an additional step of activation of carbon fibers, where pore distribution of the precursor is further developed and matured. In this chapter, we potentially review the utilization of fibrous wastes to develop carbonaceous materials with promising functionalities.

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Karthik, D., Militký, J., Gallus, I., Çubreli, G., Venkataraman, M., Remadevi Jayan, V. (2023). Carbon-Based Functional Materials Derived from Fibrous Wastes. In: Militký, J., Venkataraman, M. (eds) Advanced Multifunctional Materials from Fibrous Structures. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 201. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6002-6_10

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