Waste plastic derived carbon supported Mo2C composite catalysts for hydrogen production and energy storage applications

Mo2C-MoS2 heterojunction a suitable and stable electrocatalyst for HER and supercapacitor Applications

“…In the present work, individually synthesized nanostructures of Mo2C [7] and MoS2 [30] were used to prepare Mo2C/MoS2 heterojunctions via wet impregnation technique [31]. The structural, morphological, and surface features reveal the presence of both species in the synthesized samples.…”

“…Hydrogen is usually produced from the water via electrochemical, photocatalytic, and photoelectrochemical water splitting through hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) [1][2][3][4][5]. Hydrogen production through the above procedures necessarily requires active and stable catalyst species for commercial-scale use [6,7]. At present noble metals especially, Pt and Pt supported species are the best electrocatalysts developed for hydrogen production.…”

Use of dirty plastic waste as precursors for activated carbon production—A contribution to the circular economy

“…It was previously reported the use of clean plastic waste, in most of the cases from a specific polymer, for the production of carbon materials, such as graphene mesoporous carbon for high-voltage supercapacitors application and energy conversion (Lian et al, 2019), N-doped microporous carbon for CO 2 capture (Yuan, Li, et al, 2020), porous carbon for CF 4 adsorption (Yuan, Cho, et al, 2020), molybdenum carbide carbon nanocomposites (Mir & Pandey, 2019) and activated carbon (Belo et al, 2017;Cansado et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2015).…”

Extraction of nanostructured sodium nitrate from industrial effluent and their thermal properties

“…The solution of such kind of environmental pollution can be addressed in two way: (a) reduction of the products that generates waste and (b) treatment of the waste product. Among these two possible solutions, much attention of scientists, as well as industrialist, focused on the treatment of waste (Dabas, Yadav, Ganguli, & Jha, 2019; Mir & Pandey, 2019). This process is quite beneficial as we can generate wealth from waste.…”

“…Currently, a lot of research interest is directed toward designing of the economical‐ and industrial‐friendly processes for the treatment of waste along with the extraction of high demand products. Recently, Mir and Pandey (2019) reported the process of conversion of waste laboratory pipette into molybdenum carbide. Nandi, Raupp‐Pereira, Montedo, and Oliveira (2015) successfully used ceramic sludge to manufacture ceramic tiles.…”