Mesoporous carbon materials hollow spheres

SBA-15, MCM-48, HMS and MCM-41. Xia etal. also used CVD with acetonitrile as precursor to prepare graphitic mesoporous carbon materials with diverse morphologies, such as sphere, hollow sphere, rod and nano-tubeP Su et al. used a similar CVD method and benzene as... 

The morphology of ordered mesostructured carbons is another important factor with respect to their practical applications. Various macroscopic morphologies are required, for example, films (in sensor, separation and optical applications), uniformly sized spheres (in chromatography) or transparent monoliths. Using suitable synthesis strategies, it is possible to control the external shape of the templated mesoporous carbon materials to generate powders, films and membranes, spheres, hollow spheres, rods, fibres, nanowires, nanotubes and monoliths. 

The sphere synthesis has been extended into other materials. For example, mesoporous carbon capsules[285] with hollow core and mesoporous shell structures were synthesized using submicrometer-sized solid core and mesoporous-shell silica spheres as templates. 

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