Nanoporous carbide-derived carbon with tunable pore size

Nanoporous carbide-derived carbon with tunable pore size.

Porous solids are of great technological importance due to their ability to interact with gases and liquids not only at the surface, but throughout their bulk. Although large pores can be produced and well controlled in a variety of materials, nanopores in the range of 2 nm and below (micropores, according to IUPAC classification) are usually achieved only in carbons or zeolites. To date, major...

Nanoporous Carbide-Derived Carbon Material-Based Linear Actuators

Devices using electroactive polymer-supported carbon material can be exploited as alternatives to conventional electromechanical actuators in applications where electromechanical actuators have some serious deficiencies. One of the numerous examples is precise microactuators. In this paper, we show for first time the dilatometric effect in nanocomposite material actuators containing carbide-der...

Titanium Carbide Derived Nanoporous Carbon for Energy-Related Applications

High surface area nanoporous carbon has been prepared by thermo-chemical etching of titanium carbide TiC in chlorine in the temperature range 200–1200 °C. Structural analysis showed that this carbide-derived carbon (CDC) was highly disordered at all synthesis temperatures. Higher temperature resulted in increasing ordering and formation of bent graphene sheets or thin graphitic ribbons. Soft X-...

Electrically Tunable Nanoporous Carbon Hybrid Actuators

Direct synthesis of carbide-derived carbon monoliths with hierarchical pore design by hard-templating

Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Dresde D-01062 Dresden, Germany. E-mail: stefan. Institute of Physical Chemistry, Justus-Lieb 58, D-35392 Gießen, Germany Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoff und Stra 01277 Dresden, Germany † Electronic supplementary Information TGA curve of CDC-Ms, QSDFT pore size characterization of the reference m measurement data, and experimental det Cite this: J. Mater. Ch...