“…Therefore, the prepared carbon materials by coal-derived asphaltene as precursor are easier graphitized, which makes it promising to prepare porous carbons with excellent electrical conductivity for using as electrode materials. The carbon materials derived from asphaltene, for example, active carbon [207][208][209] , carbon foam [210,211] , carbon nanosheets [212] , carbon fibers [213,214] , and versatile composite or doped carbon materials [208,215,216] , which successfully applied in water purification, gas adsorption, electrodes, etc. The intensive interfacial interaction between functionalized asphaltenes and epoxy resins produced a novel reinforcing filler with significantly increased storage modulus [155] .…”