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Atomistic Structures of Zeolite-Templated Carbon
journal contribution
posted on 2020-03-31, 19:07 authored by Erin E. Taylor, Kaitlin Garman, Nicholas P. StadieZeolite-templated
carbons (ZTCs) are a distinct class of porous
framework materials in which a three-dimensional network of pores
is contained between atomically thin, polycyclic hydrocarbon walls,
synthesized by carbonization within a zeolite template. This class
of materials arose from the goal to develop carbon-based frameworks
with ordered, homogeneous microporosity (as opposed to activated carbons
where the pore network is random). It has more recently been suggested
that zeolite-templating may be a viable synthetic route to carbon
schwarzites, an elusive class of theoretical materials with a triply
periodic minimal surface and many fundamentally interesting properties.
In this review, we survey the currently proposed atomistic models
of ZTCs, compare them to experimental properties of ZTCs, and emphasize
the significant differences that remain between actual ZTCs prepared
in the laboratory and the still elusive schwarzites.