Carbon with nanostructures interests us with their peculiar properties for catalysis application, including onion-like carbon, carbon spheres, nanofibers, nanotubes, molecular sieves and so on. In contrast with refractory oxides as catalyst supports, carbon has distinguished advantages such as:
Easy removal and recovery of noble metals;
Usually high surface area;
Manipulable surface chemistry and structure.
State Key Laboratory
of Catalysis, SKLC
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,DICP
Chinese Academy Sciences, CAS