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Miralem Salihovic1, Jürgen Schoiber1, Alexey Cherevan2
1Chemistry and Physics of Materials, University of Salzburg, Salzburg 5020, Austria. michael.elsaesser@sbg.ac.at.
Abstract:
Extraordinarily homogeneous, freestanding titania-loaded carbon spherogels can be obtained using Ti(acac)2(OiPr)2 in the polystyrene sphere templated resorcinol-formaldehyde gelation. Thereby, a distinct, crystalline titania layer is achieved inside every hollow sphere building unit. These hybrid carbon spherogels allow capitalizing on carbon's electrical conductivity and the lithium-ion intercalation capacity of titania.
