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Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Materials with Semi-Graphitized Walls via Direct In-situ Silica-Confined Thermal Decomposition of CH4 and Their Hydrogen Storage Properties

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Ordered mesoporous carbons with semi-graphitized walls (OMCs-SGW) were successfully obtained by in situ silica-confined thermal decomposition of methane at low temperatures (800–1000 °C). This novel method, adopting ordered mesoporous silicas (OMSs) as hard templates, impregnating OMSs with small amounts of group VIII metal (Fe, Co, Ni) nitrates as catalysts, combining pore infiltration and carbonization/graphitization processes into a single step, provides an efficient way for the synthesis of OMCs-SGW. Methane, a special carbon precursor with small molecular size, is adopted because it allows complete penetration, and full carbon deposition inside the mesopores and is an easy graphitization process at low temperature assisted by catalysts. Two mesoporous silica materials, SBA-15 with hexagonal structure (p6m) and KIT-6 with cubic bicontinuous structure (Ia3d), were used as hard templates. SAXS patterns and TEM results show that the obtained carbon materials are faithfully replicated from the mesostructures of silica templates. Their pore walls are semi-graphitized and little structural shrinkage and negligible micropores are observed. The textural, structural properties and degree of graphitization of the OMCs-SGW can be conveniently tuned by controlling the temperature, namely, higher temperatures (e.g. 1000 °C) lead to products with more ordered and graphitized frameworks, but lower surface areas and pore volumes (about 390 m2/g and 0.45 cm3/g), while lower temperature (800 °C) results in products with less ordered and graphitized structures, but very high surface areas and pore volumes (up to 1200 m2/g and 2.08 cm3/g). OMCs-SGW can also be synthesized without catalysts. They have higher surface areas and pore volumes but much lower graphitized structures than the counterparts synthesized with catalysts. These OMCs-SGW show good hydrogen uptake capabilities (up to ~2 wt% at 10 bar and 77 K).

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This work was supported by the NSF of China (20721063, 20890123 and 20521140450), the State Key Basic Research Program of PRC (2006CB932302 and 2006CB202502), Shanghai Sci. & Tech. Committee (06DJ14006 and 08DZ2270500), Shanghai Nanotech Promotion Center (0652nm024), Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (B108) and Australian Research Council (Discovery Project No. DP0773160).

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, People’s Republic of China

    Zhangxiong Wu, Dong Gu, Yunpu Zhai, Dan Feng, Qiang Li, Bo Tu & Dong Yuan Zhao

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia

    Zhangxiong Wu, Yunxia Yang, Paul A. Webley & Dong Yuan Zhao

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Wu, Z., Yang, Y., Gu, D. et al. Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Materials with Semi-Graphitized Walls via Direct In-situ Silica-Confined Thermal Decomposition of CH4 and Their Hydrogen Storage Properties. Top Catal 52, 12–26 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-008-9134-8

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