Reports indicate that nanoporous carbon membranes are potential candidates for fuel cells and have shown higher performance than fuel cells containing other carbon-based materials. This is mainly due to their high porosity, pore size tenability, high conductivity and stability.
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Carbon-based materials are broadly used in various applications due to their wide availability, extraordinary physicochemical properties and low cost. Porous carbon membranes have potential applications in catalysis, water treatment, gas separation, optoelectronics and fuel cells.
Characteristics of atomic ordering, local chemical composition, morphology, pore architecture are relevant for applications of carbon membranes in energy conversion and storage devices.
In particular, a high degree of graphitization and hierarchal pore architecture…