Nitrogen-doped hollow carbon spheres with large mesoporous shells engineered from diblock copolymer micelles

Tang, J. and Liu, J. and Salunkhe, R. and Wang, T. and Yamauchi, Y. 2016. Nitrogen-doped hollow carbon spheres with large mesoporous shells engineered from diblock copolymer micelles. Chemical Communications. 52 (3): pp. 505-508.

Source Title

Chemical Communications

DOI

10.1039/c5cc07610b

ISSN

1359-7345

School

Department of Chemical Engineering

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46310

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

Nitrogen-doped hollow carbon spheres with engineered large tunable mesoporous (~20 nm) shells were successfully synthesized for the first time by using the colloidal silica and the diblock copolymer PS-b-PEO as the dual-template and dopamine as the precursor. The unique structural properties enable them to be promising materials as adsorbents, catalyst supports, electrode materials, drug delivery carriers and hosts for active substances.