Porous carbon-based materials are of the great industrial and academic interest due to their high surface area, low density, good electrical conductivity, chemical inertness and low cost of fabrication. Up to now, the main approach to obtain porous carbon structures has involved the pyrolysis of carbonaceous natural or synthetic precursors. After the isolation of graphene, the interest in 3D porous graphene-based structures (called graphene foams, sponges, networks or frameworks) aroused and methods of their production were introduced. Their high porosity alongside their chemical and biological inertness makes such 3D porous graphene-based structures good candidates as chemical adsorbents and tissue-engineering scaffolds. However, the main advantage, as compared to other carbon-based structures, is their high electrical conductivity, thus they are mainly examined as an electrode material in devices such as (bio)fuel cells, batteries, and supercapacitors.
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- Category
- Publikacja monograficzna
- Type
- rozdział, artykuł w książce - dziele zbiorowym /podręczniku w języku o zasięgu międzynarodowym
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2015
