Zhigang Liu is a professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, China. His main research interests include carbon catalysis and its application in environmental protection and energy storage.

Qiang Zhang is a full professor at Tsinghua University, China. His current research interests are advanced energy materials and energy chemistry, including dendrite-free lithium metal anode, lithium sulfur batteries, and electrocatalysis, especially the structure design and full demonstration of advanced energy materials in working devices. He is the Advisor Editor of Angew. Chem., Associate Editor of J Energy Chem & Energy Storage Mater. He is on the advisory board of Joule, Matter, ChemSocRev, Adv Energy Mater, ChemSusChem, J Mater Chem A, Chem Commun, among others. He is the deputy head of the expert group on energy storage and smart grid of the national key research and development plan.

Bingsen Zhang is a professor at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research interests are the microstructure investigation of nanocarbons and solid catalysts, and their relationship with synthesis and performance.

1. Introduction 2. Activated Carbon and Carbon Black 3. Fullerene and Carbon Dots 4. Graphene and Graphdiyne 5. Diamond 6. Carbon Nanotubes 7. Carbon Fiber 8. Carbon Spheres 9. Carbon from MOFs 10. Biomass-derived Carbon 11. The Surface Properties and Characterization of Carbon Materials 12. The synthesis methods of typical carbon materials