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Fabrication, Densification, and Replica Molding of 3D Carbon Nanotube Microstructures
Published on: July 2, 2012
Direct preparation of nanoporous carbon by nanocasting
Bao-Hang Han1, Wuzong Zhou, Abdelhamid Sayari
1Department of Chemistry and Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|March 20, 2003
Abstract:
Nanoporous carbon with narrow pore size distribution was prepared via a nanocasting technique by direct carbonization of cyclodextrin-silica organic-inorganic hybrid composite. The obtained carbon exhibited very high BET surface area and high pore volume.

