Carbon Transition Metal Mixed Porous Composites for Environmental and Energy Applications

Abstract

As the world is heading towards sustainable future, there is an increasing demand for fresh newlinewater and renewable energy sources. There is an intricate connection between energy and newlinewater and are equally important for each other. Due to the tremendous growth of world newlinepopulation and industrialization, fresh water is getting polluted and the energy consumption newlineis increasing day by day. The thesis mainly focuses on the synthesis of different transition newlinemetal-carbon composites from bio waste material for environmental and energy newlineapplications. The synthesised C/Fe3C/and#947;-Fe2O3 and CoFeatC composites were used for newlinewater treatment application via adsorption technique. And the synthesised Fe3O4/Fe3CatC newlinecomposite showed very good three and two electrode system for energy storage newlinesupercapacitor application. In addition the same material shows high oxygen reduction newlinereaction performance which suggests that the nanocomposite is suitable for both energy newlinestorage and conversion applications. Also the dye adsorbed carbon material shows good newlineelectrochemical activity towards oxygen evolution reaction thereby avoiding any newlinesecondary pollutants causing into the environment. This low cost and eco-friendly newlinesynthesis of nano composite material will thus be a path towards environmental and energy newlineapplications. newline