Bridging science and innovation: ARMS team at the Carbon 2025 conference
From June 29 to July 4, 2025, the historic coastal city of Saint-Malo, Brittany, France, became a vibrant hub for groundbreaking research and collaboration during the Carbon 2025 Conference — an esteemed international gathering dedicated to advancing carbon science and its diverse applications. Carbon materials experts from around the world convened to share insights, foster collaborations, and explore emerging trends.
Project ARMS was represented at this gathering by researchers from the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry (LSIWC), Ance Pļavniece and Aleksandrs Volperts. The conference provided a valuable platform to showcase our innovative work and engage with global leaders in the field.
Dr.sc.ing. Aleksandrs Volperts’ presentation on advanced activated carbon materials and their applications in electrochemical energy storage, specifically in supercapacitors (electrochemical double-layer capacitors, EDLCs). Supported by the Project ARMS, his research contributed to the growing knowledge base on sustainable energy storage solutions and the role of carbon materials in next-generation devices.
The conference featured five outstanding plenary lectures delivered by internationally recognized experts, highlighting advances in both fundamental research and practical applications of carbon materials:
- Prof. Fernando Pereira – “Tailoring carbon surface chemistry: Catalytic applications for sustainable solutions” – exploring carbon surface functionalization for heterogeneous catalysis;
- Prof. Patrice Simon – “2- and 3-D carbons for electrochemical energy storage applications” – discussing porous and layered carbon structures, including graphene-based materials;
- Prof. Yan Li – “Carbon nanotubes as semiconducting materials: synthesis, sorting, and assembly” – focusing on carbon nanotube applications in nanoelectronics;
- Prof. Vincent Meunier – “Decoding Raman Signatures in Carbon Nanostructures: A First-Principles Perspective on Phonons” – providing insight into interpreting Raman spectroscopy in nanostructured carbon materials;
- Prof. Fedor Jelezko – “Spin qubits in diamond” – presenting cutting-edge research on quantum information processing using spin qubits embedded in diamond lattices.
Participation in Carbon 2025 provided an excellent platform for our project partners to disseminate the latest project results, exchange ideas with peers, explore collaboration opportunities, and stay updated on emerging trends in carbon materials research.