Facile preparation of monodisperse carbon spheres: Template-free construction and their hydrogen storage properties

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1063-1068

  Chen, Jiafu ^a   Lang, Zhanlin ^a   Xu, Qun ^a   Hu, Bo ^a   Fu, Jianwei ^a   Chen, Zhimin ^a   Zhang, Jianan ^a  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hydrogen storage; Monodisperse carbon spheres; Pore structure; Template free construction

Indexed keywords

CARBON SPHERES; FACILE PREPARATION; FRIEDEL-CRAFTS; HYDROGEN STORAGE PROPERTIES; MICROPORE SIZE; MONO-DISPERSE; TEMPLATE FREE METHOD; TEMPLATE-FREE;

CARBON; HYDROGEN STORAGE; PORE STRUCTURE;

SPHERES;

EID: 84881449875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc400124b     Document Type: Article

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