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- Title
Tailored Design of Bicontinuous Gyroid Mesoporous Carbon and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon from Poly(ethylene oxide- b-caprolactone) Diblock Copolymers.
- Authors
Chu, Wei-Cheng; Bastakoti, Bishnu Prasad; Kaneti, Yusuf Valentino; Li, Jheng-Guang; Alamri, Hatem R.; Alothman, Zeid A.; Yamauchi, Yusuke; Kuo, Shiao-Wei
- Abstract
Highly ordered mesoporous resol-type phenolic resin and the corresponding mesoporous carbon materials were synthesized by using poly(ethylene oxide- b-caprolactone) (PEO- b-PCL) diblock copolymer as a soft template. The self-assembled mesoporous phenolic resin was found to form only in a specific resol concentration range of 40-70 wt % due to an intriguing balance of hydrogen-bonding interactions in the resol/PEO- b-PCL mixtures. Furthermore, morphological transitions of the mesostructures from disordered to gyroid to cylindrical and finally to disordered micelle structure were observed with increasing resol concentration. By calcination under nitrogen atmosphere at 800 °C, the bicontinuous mesostructured gyroid phenolic resin could be converted to mesoporous carbon with large pore size without collapse of the original mesostructure. Furthermore, post-treatment of the mesoporous gyroid phenolic resin with melamine gave rise to N-doped mesoporous carbon with unique electronic properties for realizing high CO2 adsorption capacity (6.72 mmol g−1at 0 °C).
- Subjects
MESOPOROUS materials; CARBON; NITROGEN; DOPED semiconductors; POLYETHYLENE oxide; CAPROLACTONES; DIBLOCK copolymers
- Publication
Chemistry - A European Journal, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 55, p13734
- ISSN
0947-6539
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/chem.201702360