In recent times, increasing environmental pollution alongside depletion of fossil fuel
reserves has led to a rejuvenated interest in utilizing biomass and waste materials …

Renewable biomass and its waste are considered among the most promising applications
materials owing to the depletion of fossil fuel and concerns about environmental pollution …

Biomass-derived porous carbonaceous materials are efficient adsorbents for VOCs, but their
traditional preparation method, pyrolysis combined with activation, suffers from high energy …

In order to substitute fossil resources in activated carbon (AC) production, recent efforts have
focused on the utilization of renewable raw materials. Regions with important wood …

In this study, corn cob was used as raw material and modified methods employing KOH and
KMnO4 were used to prepare activated carbon with high adsorption capacity for mercury …

In this work, hydrothermal technique combined with KOH activation were employed to
develop a series of porous carbons (NPCK-x) using tobacco stem as a low-cost carbon …

Biochar with hierarchical pores is one of candidates for Pb (II) removal. In this study, we
proposed the Aspergillus tubingensis pretreatment coupling with NaOH activation method to …

The high catalytic activity and specificity of enzymes can be used to pretreat biomass.
Herein, the resourceful, reproducible, cheap, and crude protein-rich cottonseed meal (CM) is …

Three micro-mesopores carbons (SAs) are successfully prepared by a facile route via the
activation of sodium alginate with a green activator of calcium chloride. These samples are …

The preparation of efficient and cheap adsorbents is important for the removal of chlorinated
volatile organic compounds, which are carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic to human …