Hierarchical Porous Carbon Arising from Metal-Organic Framework-Encapsulated Bacteria and Its Energy Storage Potential.

Hierarchical porous carbons (HPCs) hold great promise in energy-related applications owing to their excellent chemical stability and well-developed porous structures. Attention has been drawn toward developing new synthetic strategies and precursor materials that permit greater control over composition, size, morphology, and pore structure. There is a growing trend of employing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as HPC precursors as their highly customizable characteristics favor new HPC syntheses.

Wrinkled Mesoporous Silica Supported Lanthanum Oxide as a Template for Porous Carbon.

Wrinkled mesoporous silica (WMS) has been shown to be a promising material for catalysis and drug delivery. The WMS possesses a unique wrinkled structure with conical shaped pores radiating from the center to the surface of each particle. Lanthanum oxide was supported on wrinkled mesoporous silica as a hard template for the synthesis of graphitic carbon.