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Systematic Molecular Control of Interfacial Structure in Nanoporous Carbons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
Abstract
The present paper describes a new concept of synthesizing nanoporous carbons that allows control not only of the pore structure, but also of the molecular structure of the internal surfaces. Interfacial molecular control is achieved through the use of discotic liquid crystalline precursors whose molecular orientation on the substrate material is known or can be determined by simple measurements on flat substrate test samples. Here a suite of nanoporous (mesoporous) carbons are synthesized from various porous glass and silica gel templates, and a model is developed to predict the carbon properties from template properties thus allowing systematic template selection.
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