Creating extra pores in microporous carbon via a template strategy for a remarkable enhancement of ambient-pressure CO2 uptake

Baiyan Li; Yiming Zhang; Dingxuan Ma; Liangkui Zhu; Daliang Zhang; Matthew Chrzanowski; Zhan Shi; Shengqian Ma

doi:10.1039/c5cc01828e

Creating extra pores in microporous carbon via a template strategy for a remarkable enhancement of ambient-pressure CO2 uptake

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 May 21;51(41):8683-6. doi: 10.1039/c5cc01828e.

Authors

Baiyan Li¹, Yiming Zhang, Dingxuan Ma, Liangkui Zhu, Daliang Zhang, Matthew Chrzanowski, Zhan Shi, Shengqian Ma

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. sqma@usf.edu.

PMID: 25907601
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc01828e

Abstract

In this work, we illustrate a template strategy to create extra pores in microporous carbon for enhancing ambient-pressure CO2 uptake, as exemplified in the context of carbonizing the silicon-containing POP, PPN-4, followed by removal of the silicon template. The resultant PPN-4/C600 demonstrates a remarkable enhancement of CO2 uptake capacity at 295 K and 1 bar by a factor of 2.3 compared to the parent PPN-4.