"Salt templating": a simple and sustainable pathway toward highly porous functional carbons from ionic liquids.

Fechler, Nina; Fellinger, Tim-Patrick; Antonietti, Markus · Adv Mater · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A facile method to fabricate high-surface area functional carbons via convenient "salt templating" is presented. Exemplarily, nitrogen- as well as nitrogen-/boron-co-doped carbons were synthesized using ionic liquids as precursors and eutectics as porogen. The porogen is easily removable with water and the porosities can be adjusted from micro- to mesoporous depending on the salt nature and amount.