Simple hydrothermal synthesis of ordered mesoporous carbons from resorcinol and hexamine

✍ Scribed by Dan Liu; Jia-Heng Lei; Li-Ping Guo; Ke-Jian Deng

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 813 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-6223
• DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.01.047

✦ Synopsis

Hexamine has been used as a release source of formaldehyde towards the self-assembly synthesis of resorcinol/formaldehyde (RF) resin-based mesoporous carbons under hydrothermal conditions. The obtained mesoporous carbons exhibit the micrometer-sized, sphere-like morphology and a high surface area. The use of hexamine instead of formaldehyde efficiently harnesses the organic-organic self-assembly of RF resin and block copolymer. Ordered mesostructures can be obtained over a wide range of hydrothermal temperature without the extra addition of inorganic bases or acids as catalysts. The method described here has the advantage of being a one-pot procedure and only involves the use of several organic precursors in an aqueous system.