Journal
CARBON
Volume 49, Issue 12, Pages 3762-3772Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.05.010
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- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China [NCET-08-0075]
- Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars
- Ph.D. Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China [20100041110017]
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The rapid and scalable synthesis of hierarchical carbon monoliths with an ordered mesostructure and fully interconnected macropores has been demonstrated. Resorcinol and formaldehyde based polymers were used as the carbon precursor, triblock copolymer Pluronic F127 as the structural directing agent, and organic base lysine as both the polymerization catalyst and mesostructure assembly promoter. In the presence of lysine, homogeneous and crack-free polymer monoliths can be obtained through rapid gelation in 15 min at 90 degrees C. The polymer monoliths have a robust framework, which can be directly dried at 50 degrees C in air and carbonized at high temperature under a nitrogen atmosphere. The carbon monoliths are crack-free and have an ordered mesostructure with fully interconnected macropores. The surface area and the macropore volume are high with values up to 600 m(2) g(-1) and 3.52 cm(3) g(-1), respectively. Further steam activation of the carbon monolith can significantly improve the surface area to 2422 m(2) g(-1) while still maintaining the ordered mesostructure. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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