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Although mesoporous carbon materials with hierarchical nanostructures have been produced by the synthesis of hybrid nanoparticles with a silicon dioxide (SiO2) core and a shell of resorcinol formaldehyde resin, it still remains a challenge to effectively tune the pore size distribution. Among a series of phenol derivatives, 3-aminophenol was found to exhibit not only excellent tunability of the size and low roughness of the sphere surface but also high pyrolysis yields in the synthesis of carbon nano/microspheres. Here, we report that mesoporous carbon networks with a bimodal pore size distribution in their hierarchical nanostructure were prepared by 3-aminophenol and formaldehyde polymerization on the SiO2 cores. In particular, the systematic control of the ratio of carbon precursors and silica nanoparticles provides a better control of the microstructure in hybrid nanoparticles with a shell of variable thickness composed of well-defined 3-aminophenol and formaldehyde resins, resulting in the tunability of their pore size distribution.
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Acknowledgment: This work is supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (No. NRF-2015R1C1A1A01052865).
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Kim, D., Yun, S., Chun, S. et al. Porous Carbon Networks with Nanosphere-Interconnected Structure via 3-Aminophenol-Formaldehyde Polymerization. Macromol. Res. 26, 317–321 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13233-018-6041-z
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