A brief overview of the Tenth National Symposium on New Carbon Materials

The Tenth National Symposium on New Carbon Materials was held in Shenzhen, P. R. China during Dec. 10-14, 2011, which was hosted by Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University. About 200 attendees participated in the conference, and 136 papers were accepted for presentation, including 3 plenary lectures, 13 keynotes talks and 120 orals. The papers were classified into the following seven topics: carbon fibers, carbon-based composites, nano-structured carbons，porous carbons for adsorption and catalysis, intercalated and modified carbons，carbon materials for energy storage, and carbon materials for industrial application. Research and development of carbon-based composites, porous carbons for adsorption and catalysis are quite active, and rapid progress has also been made on the energy storage uses of carbon materials.