Facile one-pot synthesis of mesoporous hierarchically structured silica/carbon nanomaterials

Mesoporous silica/carbon nanomaterials with various hierarchical structures have been fabricated by a one-pot approach. Polymer/silica/surfactant (PSS) composites are first prepared by the co-sol-gel process of TEOS and resorcinol-formaldehyde precursor in the presence of CTAB. The PSS morphologies could be tuned by simply altering the content of ethanol in solution.