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Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 1(53), p. 236-239

DOI: 10.1039/c6cc07360c

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Hollow carbon nanospheres using an asymmetric triblock copolymer structure directing agent

Journal article published in 2017 by Yunqi Li, Haibo Tan, Rahul R. Salunkhe, Jing Tang, Lok Kumar Shrestha, Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti, Hongpan Rong, Toshiaki Takei, Joel Henzie ORCID, Yusuke Yamauchi ORCID, Katsuhiko Ariga ORCID
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Abstract

We introduce a simple method to prepare hollow carbon nanospheres (HCNs) by using triblock copolymer poly(styrene-b-2-vinylpyridine-bethylene oxide) (PS-b-P2VP-b-PEO) micelles as a new class of softtemplates. Simply by changing the solvent we can prepare ultra-small sized micelles of the triblock copolymer PS-b-P2VP-b-PEO soft template to obtain HCNs with ultra-small diameters (43 nm) and hollow cores (19 nm). Furthermore, we use these HCNs to make electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) that exhibit superior performance.