Mesocellular carbon foam

Fig. 4.29 Immobilization of glucose oxidase in mesocellular carbon foam for a sensitive and fast glucose biosensor. Adapted from [226], D. Lee et a ., Adv. Mater. 2005, 77, 2828.

J. Lee, K. Sohn, and T. Hyeon, Fabrication of Novel Mesocellular Carbon Foams with Uniform Ultralarge Mesopores. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 5146-5147. 

Tatsumi s group synthesised mesocellular carbon foam with a main cell size of 24 nm and window size of 18 nm via two successive impr nation of sucrose and subsequent carbonisation stepsJ The obtained mesoporous carbon had closed hollow spherical pores, while the carbon obtained by single step impregnation of sucrose had open mesocellular pores. 

Nitze F, Hamad EA, Wagberg T (2011) Well-dispersed PdsPti alloy nanoparticles in large pore sized mesocellular carbon foam for improved methanol-tolerant oxygen reduction reaction. Carbon 49 1101-1107... 

Kim Y, Jo C, Lee J et al (2012) An ordered nanocomposite of organic radical pol5nner and mesocellular carbon foam as cathode material in lithium ion batteries. J Mater Chem 22 (4) 1453-1458... 

Making use of constrained polymerisation of divinylbenzene on surfactant-modified colloid silica, Jang and Lim prepared carbon nanocapsules and mesocellular foams. Later, they reported that mesoporous carbons with highly uniform and tunable mesopores were fabricated by one-step vapour deposition polymerisation using colloidal silica nanoparticles as template and polyacrylonitrile as carbon precursor. Hampsey et al. recently reported the synthesis of spherical mesoporous carbons via an aerosol-based, one-step approach using colloidal silica particles and/or silicate clusters as template. ... 

Wu, Sh., Ju, H., and Liu, Y. 2007. Conductive mesocellular silica-carbon nanocomposite foams for immobilization, direct electrochemistry, and biosensing of proteins. Adv. Funct. Mater. 17 585-592. 

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