Plastic wastes derived carbon materials for green energy and sustainable environmental applications
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Plastic waste has become a serious environmental issue and has attracted increasing attention. Various treatment technologies have been developed for the remediation of this waste, including degradation, recycling and upcycling, and transformation to value-added products has been extensively studied. Transitioning plastic waste into carbon-based functional materials is especially attractive because of the practical applications of plastic wastes derived carbon materials (PWCMs) in the field of green energy and in sustainable environmental practices. Herein, recent advances in the preparation and applications of PWCMs are systematically reviewed. Thermal treatment methods for synthesizing carbon-based materials from plastic waste are summarized, including anoxic pyrolysis, catalytic and pressure carbonization techniques, flash Joule heating and microwave conversion. The applications of PWCMs and PWCMs-based composites to green energy storage and production (such as in batteries, supercapacitors and water-splitting systems) and sustainable environmental concepts (pollutant adsorption/degradation, solar evaporation and CO2 capture) are detailed, with an emphasis on the property-performance correlation. The potential for future development of PWCMs is also examined. This review is meant to provide insights into the advanced applications of PWCMs and to stimulate the future upcycling of plastic waste.
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Low-temperature hydrothermal carbonization produces hydrogen carbon through dehydration and decarboxylation, while high-temperature hydrothermal carbonization produces highly graphitized carbon products such as graphite carbon, activated carbon, and carbon nanotubes as the reaction temperature increases.
“Low-temperature hydrothermal carbonization produces hydrogen carbon through dehydration and decarboxylation, while high-temperature hydrothermal carbonization produces highly graphitized carbon products such as graphite carbon, activated carbon, and carbon nanotubes as the reaction temperature increases (Chen et al. 2020(Chen et al. , 2022)).”
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- Authors
- Chen, Z., Wei, W., Ni, B.-J., & Chen, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- Southern University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Chen, Hong
- Venue
- Environmental Functional Materials
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-03
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 34-48
- ISSN
- 2773-0581 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4281725271
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 169
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 11
- FWCI
- 7.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Environmental Functional Materials (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province for Distinguished Young Scholars (2020B151502094)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21777045, 61875119)
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFA1202500)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Keywords
- plastic waste, plastic waste upcycling, pyrolysis, catalytic carbonization, flash Joule heating, microwave carbonization, carbon composite, energy storage, supercapacitors, batteries, water splitting, pollutant adsorption, pollutant degradation, solar evaporation, CO2 capture
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