Recently, as the first author, Dr. Zhou Jin from the School of Chemical Engineering of SDUT, published a key paper, titled Carbon Ultramicropores: A New Approach to Tuning Carbon Ultramicropore Size at Sub-Angstrom Level for Maximizing Specific Capacitance and CO2 Uptake on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials, which is a internationally recognized top journal in the materials science. Dr. Zhou studied the effects of different alkali metal ions on the pore structure of carbon materials with a variety of in situ characterization techniques, proposing a new approach to tuning the ultramicropore size of carbon materials at the sub-angstrom (0.1nm) level and the application prospect of supercapacitors and carbon dioxide adsorption.
As a type of important functional materials, porous carbon materials are widely used in energy storage, gas adsorption and catalyst carriers and other fields. Tuning the ultramicropore size of carbon materials at the sub-angstrom (0.1nm) level has been a challenging issue in this field. To tackle the above-mentioned critical problem, Dr. Zhou proposed a precise approach to tuning the ultramicropore size of carbon materials at the sub-angstrom (0.1nm) level by making use of different alkali metal ion activation capacity and their size differences. Dr. Zhou’s research achievements have a very broad application prospects in the electrochemical energy conversion and storage, gas adsorption and separation, pollutant capture and heterogeneous catalysis and other fields. Three reviewers of Zhou’s paper believe that Zhou’s research achievements have a significant originality and broad application prospects, opening up a fresh way for the preparation of uniform pore microporous carbon materials.
The research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
As a top journal of the German Wiley Publishing Group in the materials science, Advanced Functional Materials boasts its impact factor of 11.382 in 2016.