Issue 14, 2022, Issue in Progress

Templated synthesis of microparticles with carbonaceous skeletal structures using polymer cubosomes as templates

Abstract

Polymer cubosomes (PCs) are bicontinuous mesoporous colloidal particles that feature high surface areas and an extremely ordered crystalline pore network. PCs have attracted tremendous attention because of their potential applications in many fields. Herein, we obtained new microparticles with carbonaceous reticulated networks via templated synthesis using PCs as templates. The water-channel networks of the PCs were translated into a carbonaceous skeletal cubic structure. Carbon precursors were polymerized inside the water-channel networks of the PCs under acidic conditions without collapsing the internal crystalline mesophases. The carbonaceous interconnected networks created by the templated synthesis exhibited cubic crystalline skeletal networks similar to those of the PCs. These cubic-ordered mesoporous carbon (cOMC) microparticles exhibited several properties in electrochemical experiments. In addition, the nanoscopic structures and surfaces of these microparticles sustain electrochemically perturbing environments, and thus retain more than 90% capacitance after 1000 charge–discharge cycles.

Graphical abstract: Templated synthesis of microparticles with carbonaceous skeletal structures using polymer cubosomes as templates

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Feb 2022
Accepted
11 Mar 2022
First published
16 Mar 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2022,12, 8429-8434

Templated synthesis of microparticles with carbonaceous skeletal structures using polymer cubosomes as templates

J. Song, S. Choi, J. Lim and K. T. Kim, RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 8429 DOI: 10.1039/D2RA00832G

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