Ryong Ryoo

TL;DR: A general strategy for the synthesis of highly ordered, rigid arrays of nanoporous carbon having uniform but tunable diameters is described, which gives rise to promising electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction and could prove to be practically relevant for fuel-cell technologies.

TL;DR: O.R.T. and Z.L.K. as discussed by the authors acknowledge donors of the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS), and thank CREST, JST for supports.

TL;DR: Ordered carbon molecular sieves exhibiting Bragg diffraction of X-ray lines have been synthesized for the first time, using mesoporous silica sieves as the template.

TL;DR: It is shown that appropriately designed bifunctional surfactants can direct the formation of zeolite structures on the mesoporous and microporous length scales simultaneously and thus yield MFI (ZSM-5, one of the most important catalysts in the petrochemical industry) zeolites that are only 2 nm thick, which corresponds to the b-axis dimension of a single MFI unit cell.

TL;DR: Ordered mesoporous carbons have been synthesized using ordered mesopore silica templates as discussed by the authors, where the template needs to exhibit three-dimensional pore structure in order to be suitable for the ordered mesophorous carbon synthesis, otherwise disordered microporous carbon is formed.