Mesoporous Carbons from Polysaccharides and Their Use in Li-O Batteries.

Previous studies have demonstrated that the mesoporosity of carbon material obtained by the Starbon process from starch-formed by amylose and amylopectin can be tuned by controlling this ratio (the higher the amylose, the higher the mesoporosity). This study shows that starch type can also be an important parameter to control this mesoporosity. Carbons with controlled mesoporosity (V from 0.