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Surface Properties of Synthesized Nanoporous Carbon and Silica Matrices
Published on: March 27, 2019
Template synthesis of three-dimensional cubic ordered mesoporous carbon with tunable pore sizes
Weijie Dai1, Mingbo Zheng, Yu Zhao
1Nanomaterials Research Institute, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 210016, Nanjing, People's Republic of China. jmcao@nuaa.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Three-dimensional cubic ordered mesoporous carbons with tunable pore sizes have been synthesized by using cubic Ia3d mesoporous KIT-6 silica as the hard template and boric acid as the pore expanding agent. The prepared ordered mesoporous carbons were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and nitrogen adsorption-desorption analysis. The results show that the pore sizes of the prepared ordered mesoporous carbons with three-dimensional cubic structure can be regulated in the range of 3.9-9.4 nm. A simplified model was proposed to analyze the tailored pore sizes of the prepared ordered mesoporous carbons on the basis of the structural parameters of the silica template.
