Novel Carbon Nanomaterials for Metal Free Catalysis

This thesis presents an investigation on synthesis of carbon nanoribbons by edged engineering and the roles of the carbon edges in several catalytic reactions, oxygen reduction reaction, aqueous organic remediation and ethanol selective oxidation. Using edge engineered nanocarbons as the model catal...

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Main Author: Yang, Qi
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78305
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description This thesis presents an investigation on synthesis of carbon nanoribbons by edged engineering and the roles of the carbon edges in several catalytic reactions, oxygen reduction reaction, aqueous organic remediation and ethanol selective oxidation. Using edge engineered nanocarbons as the model catalysts, the carbon edges are exclusively proven to be catalytically active. Further, edges significantly benefit the heteroatom incorporation into the carbon lattice, and exhibit superior catalytic activity to basal plane doped sites.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-783052022-03-21T06:41:18Z Novel Carbon Nanomaterials for Metal Free Catalysis Yang, Qi This thesis presents an investigation on synthesis of carbon nanoribbons by edged engineering and the roles of the carbon edges in several catalytic reactions, oxygen reduction reaction, aqueous organic remediation and ethanol selective oxidation. Using edge engineered nanocarbons as the model catalysts, the carbon edges are exclusively proven to be catalytically active. Further, edges significantly benefit the heteroatom incorporation into the carbon lattice, and exhibit superior catalytic activity to basal plane doped sites. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78305 Curtin University fulltext
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Novel Carbon Nanomaterials for Metal Free Catalysis
title Novel Carbon Nanomaterials for Metal Free Catalysis
title_full Novel Carbon Nanomaterials for Metal Free Catalysis
title_fullStr Novel Carbon Nanomaterials for Metal Free Catalysis
title_full_unstemmed Novel Carbon Nanomaterials for Metal Free Catalysis
title_short Novel Carbon Nanomaterials for Metal Free Catalysis
title_sort novel carbon nanomaterials for metal free catalysis
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78305