“…A promising approach involves the use of carbon materials or carbon/ceramic composites as supports for FT catalysts since they can offer distinct advantages compared with oxides materials, such as higher resistance to acidic or basic media, higher thermal stability, lower metal-support interactions and higher metal-supported reducibility [7]. In addition to this, the high thermal conductivity of carbon materials has evidenced to favor the catalyst heat-transfer properties during the highly exothermic FTS reaction [7][8][9]. Different carbon-based materials have been widely used as supports for cobalt-based FT catalysts, such as activated carbons (Co/AC) [10][11][12][13][14], carbon nanotubes and nanofibers (Co/CNT and Co/CNF) [5,12,[15][16][17], carbon spheres (Co/CS) [18], ordered mesoporous carbons (Co/CMK-3) [18,19] etc., and carbon/ceramic composites, such as Co/C-mesoHZSM-5 [20], Co/C-SiO 2 [21], Co/C-TiO 2 [22] and, most recently, Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) derived catalysts via the MOF-mediated synthesis route (Co@C) [23][24][25][26].…”