title: Mesoporous Carbon Materials with Functional Compositions.
abstract: Since the 1990s, there has been rapidly expanding development of solid materials with mesoporous structure, of which mesoporous carbons are an important family. Toward the design of functional materials, mesoporous carbons with various compositions have been prepared for specific uses, such as catalysts, adsorbents, and electrode materials. Some of those novel materials indeed show promising performance in several fields, such as nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon for oxygen reduction reactions in fuel cells and mesoporous carbon nitride for photocatalysis. This Minireview summarizes recent advances in the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of mesoporous carbons with functional compositions and briefly discusses next-generation mesoporous carbons.
authors.affiliation: Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA.
authors.forename: Pengfei
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA.
authors.forename: Jinshui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA.|Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 37996, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Sheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dai
keywords: carbon nitride; functional carbon; mesoporous carbon; mesoporous materials; nitrogen-doping