Fall Meeting 2022

December 12 - 16, 2022

Achieving net-zero is impossible without developing carbon-negative materials because nearly half of all emissions come from making materials. Hence, designing low-cost scalable carbon-negative materials is necessary to achieve a truly circular (bio)economy. Transforming biomass waste residues to sustainable carbon via thermochemical (e.g., pyrolysis) and hydrothermal (e.g., hydrothermal carbonization) processing of biomass feedstocks have emerged as promising pathways for a new class of carbon-negative sustainable materials. Advanced sorption capabilities, biocompatibility, and surface functionalization make them an excellent choice for wide-ranging applications. They are also susceptible to functionalization with nanomaterials (e.g., Fe and Mn -oxides) and heteroatoms (e.g., N, S etc.) imparting redox transformation (reductive as well as oxidative) capabilities. This session welcomes studies showing sustainable synthesis routes for these materials and their potential applications including (but not limited to) resource recovery, pollution prevention, contaminant immobilization, bio/photo-catalytic applications, and soil amendment.