@article { ISI:000243695000025,
	title = {Synthesis and characterization of mesoporous carbon through inexpensive mesoporous silica as template},
	journal = {Microporous and Mesoporous Materials},
	volume = {98},
	number = {1-3},
	year = {2007},
	month = {JAN},
	pages = {189-199},
	publisher = {ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV},
	type = {Article},
	address = {PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS},
	abstract = {<p>Mesoporous silica materials have been synthesized through sol-gel reaction using inexpensive sodium silicate as source of silica and low cost hydroxy carboxylic acid compounds as templates/pore forming agents. The material measured surface area of 1014 m(2)/g, pore diameter of 65 angstrom and pore volume of 1.4 cc/g when parameters like time and temperature of synthesis along with mole ratio of TA/SiO(2) were optimized. Here TA stands for tartaric acid. Carbonization of sucrose inside the pores of above silica material at 900 degrees C followed by removal of silica framework using aqueous ethanoic solution of NaOH gave rise to mesoporous carbon material. The resulting materials were characterized by N(2)-sorption, FTIR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, thermal analysis and cyclic voltammetry. Three dimensional interconnecting wormhole channel arrangement of mesoporous silica template leads to mesoporous carbon replica with surface area of 1200 m(2)/g. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic study (XPS) of the mesoporous carbon material shows the concentration of carbon atom in the range of 97-98\% with 1-2\% oxygen and negligible amount of silica. The electrochemical double layer capacitance behavior of carbon material with the specific capacitance value of 88.0 F/g at the scan rate of 1 mV/s appears to be promising. (C) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.</p>},
	keywords = {Electrochemical properties, hydroxy carboxylic acid, mesoporous carbon, Mesoporous silica, sodium silicate},
	issn = {1387-1811},
	doi = {10.1016/j.micromeso.2006.09.003},
	author = {Karandikar, Prashant R. and Patil, K. R. and Mitra, A. and Kakade, Bhalchandra A. and Chandwadkar, Asha J.}
}
