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Surface Properties of Synthesized Nanoporous Carbon and Silica Matrices
Published on: March 27, 2019
Facile synthesis of a sulfonated carbon-silica-meso composite and mesoporous silica
Devaki Nandan1, Peta Sreenivasulu, Sandeep K Saxena
1Catalyst and Conversion Processes Division, Indian Institute of Petroleum, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dehradun-248005, India.
Abstract:
In this study we report a novel and simple method for preparing a sulfonated carbon-silica-meso composite showing high acidity and porosity useful for transformation of bulky molecules, where glucose was used as a carbon source as well as a non-surfactant templating precursor and the resultant composite upon calcination yielded the mesoporous silica.

