Tj. Bandosz et al., PORE STRUCTURE OF CARBON-MINERAL NANOCOMPOSITES AND DERIVED CARBONS OBTAINED BY TEMPLATE CARBONIZATION, Chemistry of materials, 8(8), 1996, pp. 2023-2029
The lithium form of taeniolite, intercalated with hydroxyaluminum and
hydroxyaluminum-zirconium cations, served as the molecular template fo
r carbon-mineral nanocomposites and derived carbons. The inorganic mat
rixes were saturated by furfuryl alcohol followed by its interlayer po
lymerization and carbonization. Carbons were derived after removal of
the inorganic matrix. The surface and structural characteristics were
obtained by X-ray diffraction, SEM, IGC, and sorption experiments (sor
ption of nitrogen, CH4, CF4, and SF6). The results demonstrated that s
tructural properties of the derived materials depend on the water cont
ent of the inorganic matrix. Molecular sieving properties of template
derived carbons were also observed.