Preparation of Activated Ordered Mesoporous Carbons with a Channel Structure

• Published in: Langmuir Vol. 24; no. 7; pp. 2967 - 2969
• Main Authors: Wu, Dingcai, Liang, Yeru, Yang, Xiaoqing, Zou, Chong, Li, Zhenghui, Lv, Guifen, Zeng, Xianhua, Fu, Ruowen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Chemical Society 01.04.2008
• Subjects: Adsorbents; Chemistry; Colloidal state and disperse state; Exact sciences and technology; General and physical chemistry; Porous materials; Surface physical chemistry; Microporosity; Micropore; Pore; Activated carbon; Preparation; Channel structure; Activation; Surface area; Carbon; Porous material; Precursor; Mesoporosity
• ISSN: 0743-7463; 1520-5827
• DOI: 10.1021/la703511z

Activated ordered mesoporous carbons with a channel structure (AOMCs-CS) were successfully prepared by imposing CO2 activation on ordered mesopore carbon C-FDU-15. It is found that the continuous carbon framework of the precursor C-FDU-15 plays an important role in keeping the order structure of the resulting AOMCs-CS. The mild activation (e.g., 31 wt % burnoff) does not impair the order degree. After that, the order degree gradually decreases with further increasing burnoff. However, the basic hexagonal mesostructure of C-FDU-15 can still be found in the AOMCs-CS when the burnoff is up to 73 wt %, although many carbon walls are punched and thus many larger mesopores and marcropores are generated. With increasing burnoff, the surface area and volume of micropores increase first and then decrease, and the surface area and volume of mesopores continuously increase. The highest measured Brunaruer−Emmett−Teller (BET) surface area, micropore volume, and total pore volume of the AOMCs-CS reach 2004 m2/g, 0.50 cm3/g, and 1.22 cm3/g, respectively.