1. Surface chemistry of green carbons / Conchi O. Ania -- 2. Preparation of carbon materials from lignocellulosic biomass / Cesar Nieto Delgado and Jose Rene Rangel Mendez -- 3. Adsorbed natural gas and hydrogen storage / Juan Alca�iz-Monge, Dolores Lozano-Castello, Diego Cazorla-Amoros, and Angel Linares-Solano -- 4. Bio-mass-derived carbon electrodes for electrochemical double-layer capacitors / Thomas E. Rufford, Erika Fiset, Denisa Hulicova-Jurcakova, and Zhonghua Zhu -- 5. Cellulose-based nanostructured carbons for energy conversion and storage devices / Joanna Rooke, Romain Sescousse, Tatiana Budtova, Sandrine Berthon-Fabry, Bernard Simon, and Marian Chatenet -- 6. Environmental and green chemistry applications of nanoporous carbons / Juan Matos -- 7. Removal of toxic gases on activated carbons / Teresa J. Bandosz -- 8. Conventional and tailored activated carbons for removing natural organic matter and targeted compounds from drinking water / Fred S. Cannon and Cesar Nieto-Delgado -- 9. Adsorption of volatile organic vapours / Peter Lodewyckx -- 10. Carbon foam as a radionuclide trap material for fast nuclear reactors / Prasanta Jana and V. Ganesan.