Elaigwu, Sunday, Kyriakou, Georgios, Prior, Timothy and Greenway, Gillian (2014). Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of carbon monolith via a soft-template method using resorcinol and formaldehyde as carbon precursor and pluronic F127 as template. Materials Letters, 123 , pp. 198-201.
Abstract
A new microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of carbon monolith is reported in this work. The process uses microwave heating at 100 °C under acidic condition by employing a triblock copolymer F127 as the template, and resorcinol–formaldehyde as the carbon precursor. Scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, nitrogen sorption measurements, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray studies and thermogravimetic analysis were used to characterize the synthesized material. The carbon monolith is crack-free, mesoporous and has a high surface area of 697 m2/g. The results demonstrate that the microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis is a fast and simple approach to obtain carbon monoliths, as it reduces effectively the synthesis time from hours to a few minutes which could be an advantage in the large scale production of the material.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2014.03.003 |
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Divisions: | Engineering & Applied Sciences Engineering & Applied Sciences > Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI) |
Additional Information: | © 2014, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2014-05-15 |
Authors: |
Elaigwu, Sunday
Kyriakou, Georgios Prior, Timothy Greenway, Gillian |