Carbon nitride used as a reactive template to prepare mesoporous molybdenum sulfide and nitride.

Carbon nitride CN has been used as a sacrificial template to prepare inorganic materials with hierarchical pore structure. CN impregnated with ammonium heptamolybdate was treated in reactive gas mixtures (HS/H or NH/H). This approach allowed mesoporous molybdenum sulfide and molybdenum nitride materials to be obtained that replicate the morphology of the CN template.