Abstract
Ali will be discussing his new book, “Green Production of Carbon Nanomaterials in Molten Salts and Applications “, set to be released in March 2020 by Springer Nature. This book focuses on the possible interactions that can occur between carbonaceous materials and molten salts leading to the preparation of a variety of carbon nanostructures including carbon nanotubes, graphene nanosheets, and nanodiamonds, highlighting possible future developments in the field. Particularly, the electrochemical exfoliation of cathodically charged graphite materials in molten salts is discussed as an efficient approach for economic and environmentally sustainable production of high-quality graphene-related nanostructures in large scales with several interesting energy and environmental applications, such as Li (Na) -ion battery and supercapacitor electrode materials and dye adsorbents. Carbon nanostructures produced in molten salts exhibit a favorable combination of characteristics in terms of high crystallinity, thermal stability, and electrical conductivity.
About the Speaker
Ali Kamali is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University (China) and director of the Energy and Environmental Materials Research Centre. He is a former Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the co-founder of four materials companies. He is the inventor/co-inventor of several technologies concerning the large-scale green preparation of carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds, metal powders and intermetallic alloys, some of which have been transferred to industry. Ali is the corresponding/first author of more than 100 technical papers and has received several awards, including the International Khwarizmi Award (2005), NSFC International Scientist Fellowship (2017) and the Rose Award (2019). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.