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Introduced in the literature in 1913 by Bergius, who at the time was studying biomass coalification, hydrothermal carbonisation, as many other technologies based on renewables, was forgotten during the "industrial revolution". It was rediscovered back in 2005, on the one hand, to follow the trend set by Bergius of biomass to coal conversion for decentralised energy generation, and on the other hand as a novel green method to prepare advanced carbon materials and chemicals from biomass in water, at mild temperature, for energy storage and conversion and environmental protection. In this review, we will present an overview on the latest trends in hydrothermal carbonisation including biomass to bioenergy conversion, upgrading of hydrothermal carbons to fuels over heterogeneous catalysts, advanced carbon materials and their applications in batteries, electrocatalysis and heterogeneous catalysis and finally an analysis of the chemicals in the liquid phase as well as a new family of fluorescent nanomaterials formed at the interface between the liquid and solid phases, known as hydrothermal carbon nanodots. This journal is
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Published in Green Chemistry, Volume 22, Issue 15, 2020, pages 4747-4800.
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© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
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Nicolae, S. A., Au, H., Modugno, P., Luo, H., Szego, A. E., Qiao, M., Li, L., Yin, W., Heeres, H. J., Berge, N., & Titirici, M.-M. (2020). Recent advances in hydrothermal carbonisation: from tailored carbon materials and biochemicals to applications and bioenergy. Green Chemistry, 22(15), 4747–4800.https://doi.org/10.1039/d0gc00998a