Dear colleagues,

The interest in carbon-based supports for catalytic applications relies on the great advantages it exhibits, such as good thermal conductivity, high specific surface area, and high thermal and chemical stability under middle operation conditions. Besides this, the chemical inertness properties of carbon materials suppress the undesired chemical reaction catalyzed by the reaction of the support with the active phase, and their low cost and time-consuming production procedure compared to precious metal catalysts make them a competitive candidate as support in heterogeneous catalysis. Another remarkable feature that carbon supports possess is the possibility of tailoring both their porous structure and surface chemistry, not only during the preparation procedure, but also by further modification via different chemical and thermal treatments, which allow bonding extra heteroatoms on their surfaces, such as oxygen and nitrogen surface groups. This fascinating properties of carbon helps in catalysis field such as selective hydrogenation of substituted nitrobenzenes, alpha beta unsaturated carbonyl compounds etc.