Hierarchically porous carbons with diverse microstructures derived from crude oil via “One-for-All” strategy

This work focuses on the controllable fabrication of polymorphic nanostructured carbons consisting hierarchical pores via “One-for-All” strategy from a single precursor-crude oil. Five kinds tuned with tremella-, honeycomb-, waxberry-, nanorod- and nanocube-like structures were obtained crude oil, by employing facile room temperature curing structural regulation methods followed thermal treatment. All five have high specific surface area large pore volume pores. In short, this study provides an efficient novel to fabricate controllably porous desired multifarious microstructures