What green method can be used to prepare chemically-activated carbon of large surface area?

Beniah Obinna Isiuku @Beniah-Isiuku

02 January 2020 1 968 Report

Research on adsorption of a dye from aqueous solution on activated carbon derived from waste is being designed.

Gilbert Adjoyi

Oxygen photolysis is green. Just do that and chemically activated carbon will be thought of.

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