Effect of the conditions of the matrix carbonization of sucrose on the structure and adsorption properties of mesoporous carbon materials

A study was carried out on the effect of the conditions of the matrix carbonization of sucrose in MCM-48 and SBA-15 silica mesoporous molecular sieves on the structure and adsorption properties of the resultant CMK-1 and CMK-3 mesoporous carbon molecular sieves. CMK-3 was found to be a structurally similar replica of SBA-15. An exact replica is not formed in the case of MCM-48. This failure is attributed to considerable deformation of the matrix during the carbonization process due to the bicontinuous pore system and thinner framework walls. This is probably related to transformation of the carbon material into a low symmetry product upon detemplating of the C/MCM-48 composite (dissolution of the silica). Mesoporous carbon materials were obtained with good adsorption structure features. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 365–370, November–December, 2008.