Towards Negative Emissions: Hydrothermal Carbonization of Biomass for Sustainable Carbon Materials

Abstract The contemporary production of carbon materials heavily relies on fossil fuels, contributing significantly to the greenhouse effect. Biomass is a carbon‐neutral resource whose organic carbon is formed from atmospheric CO 2 . Employing biomass as a precursor for synthetic carbon materials can fix atmospheric CO 2 into solid materials, achieving negative carbon emissions. Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) presents an attractive method for converting biomass into carbon materials, by which biomass can be transformed into materials with favorable properties in a distinct hydrothermal environment, and these carbon materials have made extensive progress in many fields. However, the HTC of biomass is a…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 52070116, 52276202
• BM
  Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation

  Award: 2222012