Herein, we present a strategy for a hierarchical porous carbon (HPC) material system with tunable textural properties and the ability to imbue porosity on all three different porosity regimes: micro- (&lt;2 nm), meso- (2-50 nm) and macroporosity (&gt;50 nm). We will show how optimization and modification of this strategy has resulted in HPCs with very large measured BET specific surface areas (&gt;2500 m<sup>2</sup>/g via BET) combined with colossally high micro/mesopore volumes (~10 cm<sup>3</sup>/g)—the combination of which are rarely seen in porous carbon materials. We will show how we achieved these high textural characteristics via exquisite morphological control and how we were able to tune the carbon structure of the HPCs into either a hard carbon or a more ordered (graphitic) carbon. Furthermore, we will demonstrate how these HPCs can be utilized as a scaffold-like materials platform from which to attach nanoparticles for energy storage applications as well as applications that take advantage of the HPCs unique textural properties such as materials for gas adsorption.

Hierarchical porous carbon materials platform with exceptional surface area and pore volume for energy and environmental applications

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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