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Sustainable and Waste-Derived Advanced Functional Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications
Submission Abstract:
Sustainable and waste-derived advanced carbon-based nanomaterials have emerged as next-generation platforms for emerging environmental applications due to their eco-friendly synthesis, tunable surface chemistry, and multifunctional properties. Recent breakthroughs in functional carbon nanomaterials—such as activated carbon, biochar, CNTs, GO, rGO, doped carbon materials, carbon quantum materials, biochar-derived nanostructures, and hybrid carbon composites—have demonstrated exceptional potential in smart environmental pollutant removal and detection, catalysis, water purification, energy storage, and targeted biomedical functions. Their unique optical, electrical, and physicochemical characteristics enable high-performance detection of emerging pollutants, micro/nanoplastics, metal ions, biomolecules, and hazardous analytes, while supporting sustainable circular-economy approaches. This thematic issue highlights recent progress in green synthesis routes, mechanistic understanding, structural modulation, device integration, and real-world environmental and catalytic applications. By assembling contributions from leading global researchers, it aims to foster multidisciplinary discussions bridging chemistry, materials science, biotechnology, environmental engineering, and sustainable nanotechnology.