Editorial

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José Luis Pinilla Ibarz, Juana María Rosas

Empezamos el curso con energías renovadas tras el merecido descanso estival, y lo hacemos con el Boletín número 77 del Grupo Español del Carbón, que llega cargado de contenidos ...

Entrevistamos a: Juan Matos Lale

pp. 2-3

En este número del Boletín tenemos el placer de entrevistar al profesor Juan Matos Lale de la Universidad Autónoma de Chile ...

Graphene-derived borocarbonitrides as electrocatalysts for hydrogen production in alkaline media (Sección "Conociendo Nuevos Grupos")

pp. 4-9

J. Cencerrero, A. Romero, A. de Lucas-Consuegra, A.R. de la Osa, P. Sánchez

In the context of sustainable electrochemical hydrogen production, metal-free carbon-based materials are emerging as scalable and versatile alternatives. Graphene-derived materials, in particular, stand out due to their high electrical conductivity and tunable properties for specific applications...

El catedrático de la UA Diego Cazorla-Amorós recibe el premio de la European Carbon Association

pp. 10

Raúl Berenguer Betrián

Nuestro compañero Diego Cazorla-Amorós, catedrático del Departamento de Química Inorgánica y perteneciente al Instituto de Materiales (IUMA) de la Universidad de Alicante (UA), ha sido galardonado con el prestigioso premio de la European Carbon Association (ECA) en reconocimiento a sus sobresalientes aportaciones en el campo de los materiales de carbón y a su servicio a la comunidad científica europea ...

The World Conference on Carbon (CARBON 2025) Saint-Malo – Francia

pp. 11-14

Victoria G. Rocha y Zoraida González Arias

Entre los días 29 de junio y 4 de julio de 2025 se celebró en Saint-Malo (Francia) el congreso “The World Conference on Carbon – CARBON 2025”, punto de encuentro para los investigadores del campo de los materiales de carbono. Gracias a la excelente organización por parte de la Societé Francophone dÉtude des Carbones (SFEC) y la Universidad de Rennes (en el marco de la European Carbon Association, ECA)...

Preparation of bidimensional materials for energy storage and environmental applications

pp. 15-17

Alberto Martínez Jódar

In recent years, nanomaterials and more specifically two-dimensional (2D) materials have been attracting great interest due to the change in physicochemical properties from their bulk forms and the possibility of their selective modulation ...

Copper catalysts: bimetallic nanoparticles and single atoms for CO₂ electroreduction

pp. 18-19

Manuel Gutiérrez Roa

Electrochemical CO2 conversion offers a promising route to valorise carbon dioxide into industrially relevant products using electricity, potentially from renewable sources, thereby contributing to the defossilisation of the economy ...

Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured, heteroatom-doped carbon materials for use in sodium-ion capacitors

pp. 20-21

Sara Payá González

The increasing demand for sustainable and efficient energy storage devices is one of the major challenges in the global transition towards renewable energy systems that can allow the decarbonization of our society ...

Nanostructured biopolymers, bionanofabrication and the path towards a sustainable nanotechnology

pp. 22-23

Víctor Calvo Peña

This doctoral thesis addresses the need for greener practices in nanotechnology by focusing on nanostructured biopolymers (NBs), a class of biopolymers characterized by at least one dimension in the nanoscale ...

Improvement of the electrocatalytic activity in sustainable energy systems based on surface modification of carbon materials

pp. 24-25

María González-Ingelmo

Water splitting, when powered by renewable energy, offers a sustainable route to produce hydrogen as fuel. The process involves two half reactions: the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) at the cathode and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at the anode ...

Synthesis of two-dimensional materials through electrochemical exfolation for energy storage

p. 26-27

Daniel Fernández Carrasco

The rapid growth in the demand for renewable energy has underscored the importance of developing energy storage devices with high energy density, stability, and low cost, which are essential for meeting future energy and environmental demands ...