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Synthesis of bimodal mesoporous carbon nanospheres for methyl orange adsorption

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Mesoporous materials with bimodal mesopores show advantages in adsorption, energy storage, and catalysis because such unique structures are beneficial to the mass transfer. Here, we describe the synthesis of bimodal mesoporous carbon nanospheres (BMCSs) by using phenolic resin as carbon precursor, triblock copolymer Pluronic F127 as the soft template, and mesoporous silica spheres as hard templates. The BMCSs with uniform spherical morphology, high specific surface area (1489 m2 g− 1), large pore volume (0.92 cm3 g− 1), and bimodal mesoporous structure (3.8 and 6.8 nm) exhibit promising properties for adsorption of methyl orange (MO). The maximum adsorption capacity of the BMCSs is 5.5 × 102 ± 0.2 × 102 mg g− 1, which is higher than that of many adsorbents reported. The kinetics studies show a better fit of pseudo-second-order model. Meanwhile, fitting equilibrium data show that the Langmuir model is more suitable to describe the MO adsorption than Freundlich model.

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This work was financially supported by the National Science Foundation of China (21676070), the Hebei Training Program for Talent Project (A201500117), Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (20140120), Science and Technology Research Projects in Hebei Universities (QN20131069, QN2014142, ZD20131032 and Z2013001), and Five Platform Open Fund Projects of Hebei University of Science and Technology (2014PT86, 2015PT37), Special Project for Synthesis and Application of Graphene in Hebei University of Science and Technology (2015PT65).

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    Kechan Xia, Guoxu Wang, Hongliang Zhang, Lei Liu, Yifeng Yu, Lingli Wang & Aibing Chen

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Xia, K., Wang, G., Zhang, H. et al. Synthesis of bimodal mesoporous carbon nanospheres for methyl orange adsorption. J Porous Mater 24, 1605–1612 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-017-0400-7

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