Recent Advances of Biomass‐Derived Porous Carbon Materials in Catalytic Conversion of Organic Compounds

The inevitable rise of the world population has been producing huge amount of biomass, which has now one of the major hazards to human existence on the planet. On the other hand, the shift to the bio-based economy from the fossil-based economy is a major challenge that is being thoroughly vetted. Biomass valorization is one of the key approaches to address the earlier-mentioned problems. Porous carbon (PC) materials as a catalyst and/or catalytic supports are used in numerous applications such as fuel cells, supercapacitors, and organic synthesis. This chapter aims to provide an overview of production of PC from biomass, and its various catalytic applications such as hydrogenation would be discussed.