title: Hollow carbon nanospheres using an asymmetric triblock copolymer structure directing agent.
abstract: We introduce a simple method to prepare hollow carbon nanospheres (HCNs) by using triblock copolymer poly(styrene-b-2-vinylpyridine-b-ethylene oxide) (PS-b-P2VP-b-PEO) micelles as a new class of soft-templates. Simply by changing the solvent we can prepare ultra-small sized micelles of the triblock copolymer PS-b-P2VP-b-PEO soft template to obtain HCNs with ultra-small diameters (43 nm) and hollow cores (19 nm). Furthermore, we use these HCNs to make electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) that exhibit superior performance.
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Yunqi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp and Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
authors.forename: Haibo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Rahul R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Salunkhe
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Lok Kumar
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Bishnu Prasad
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Bastakoti
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Hongpan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rong
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takei
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Joel
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9190-2645
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Henzie
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp and Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan and Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM), University of Wollongong, Squires Way, North Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Ariga.Katsuhiko@nims.go.jp Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Katsuhiko
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2445-2955
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ariga