Nano Express
Template method synthesis of mesoporous carbon spheres and its applications as supercapacitors
1 Institute of Chemical and Environment Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, ul. Pulaskiego 10, Szczecin, 70-322, Poland
2 Department of Polymer and Carbonaceous Materials, Wroclaw University of Technology, ul. Gdanska 7/9, Wroclaw, 50344, Poland
Nanoscale Research Letters 2012, 7:269 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-7-269
Published: 29 May 2012Abstract
Mesoporous carbon spheres (MCS) have been fabricated from structured mesoporous silica sphere using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) with ethylene as a carbon feedstock. The mesoporous carbon spheres have a high specific surface area of 666.8 m2/g and good electrochemical properties. The mechanism of formation mesoporous carbon spheres (carbon spheres) is investigated. The important thing is a surfactant hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB), which accelerates the process of carbon deposition. An additional advantage of this surfactant is an increase the yield of product. These mesoporous carbon spheres, which have good electrochemical properties is suitable for supercapacitors.
