Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Decoupled temperature and pressure hydrothermal synthesis of carbon sub-micron spheres from cellulose

  • Shijie Yu,
  • Xinyue Dong,
  • Peng Zhao,
  • Zhicheng Luo,
  • Zhuohua Sun,
  • Xiaoxiao Yang,
  • Qinghai Li,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Yanguo Zhang,
  • Hui Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31352-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Temperature and pressure are typically dependent parameters in hydrothermal processes. Here, authors devise a hydrothermal system that allows independent control of these parameters and realize low-temperature fast synthesis of carbon sub-micron spheres directly from cellulose at higher pressure.