Methods for preparing porous carbon hollow spheres are disclosed. The method includes contacting one or more polymer hollow spheres with a SiO.sub.2 precursor to form one or more SiO.sub.2-containing polymer hollow spheres; carbonizing the one or more SiO.sub.2-containing polymer hollow spheres to form one or more SiO.sub.2-containing carbon hollow spheres; and removing SiO.sub.2 from the one or more SiO.sub.2-containing carbon hollow spheres to form one or more porous carbon hollow spheres. The prepared porous carbon hollow spheres may be filled with liquid metal salts and treated at elevated temperatures to form filled porous carbon spheres. Methods of filling the porous carbon hollow spheres and compositions that include the filled porous carbon spheres are also disclosed.

A method of making activated carbon including: compressing a mixture of carbonaceous source material and an alkali source material into a first solid form; and activating the first solid form to a form an activated carbon having a second solid form.

A method of making a carbon-carbon composite part may comprise fabricating a fibrous preform comprising a fiber volume ratio of 25% or greater, heat treating the fibrous preform at a first temperature, infiltrating the fibrous preform with a first ceramic suspension, densifying the fibrous preform by chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) to form a densified fibrous preform, and heat treating the densified fibrous preform at a second temperature of 1600 C. or greater.

Novel carbon molecular sieve (CMS) compositions comprising carbonized vinylidene chloride copolymer having micropores with an average micropore size ranging from 3.0 to 5.0. These materials offer capability in separations of gas mixtures including, for example, propane/propylene; nitrogen/methane; and ethane/ethylene. Such may be prepared by a process wherein vinylidene chloride copolymer beads, melt extruded film or fiber are pretreated to form a precursor that is finally carbonized at high temperature. Preselection or knowledge of precursor crystallinity and attained maximum pyrolysis temperature enables preselection or knowledge of a average micropore size, according to the equation ?=6.09+(0.0275?C)?(0.00233?T), wherein ? is the average micropore size in Angstroms, C is the crystallinity percentage and T is the attained maximum pyrolysis temperature in degrees Celsius, provided that crystallinity percentage ranges from 25 to 75 and temperature in degrees Celsius ranges from 800 to 1700. The beads, fibers or film may be ground, post-pyrolysis, and combined with a non-coating binder to form extruded pellets, or alternatively the fibers may be woven, either before or after pre-treatment, to form a woven fiber sheet which is thereafter pyrolyzed to form a woven fiber adsorbent.

The present disclosure relates to a metal nanoparticles impregnated activated carbon fiber for removing harmful substances, and a method of manufacturing the same. A method of manufacturing a metal nanoparticles impregnated activated carbon fiber for removing harmful substances according to the present disclosure includes an activation step of manufacturing an activated carbon fiber by heat-treating a precursor including a waste carbon fiber under a mixed atmosphere of activation gases including water vapor, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, argon, helium, or combinations thereof, and a metal containing step of containing metal in the activated carbon fiber. According to the present disclosure, a carbonization process is unnecessary since a precursor including the waste carbon fiber is used, and the metal nanoparticles impregnated activated carbon fiber may have remarkably improved adsorptive power compared to an activated carbon fiber with the same specific surface area by controlling the micropore distribution.

A range of carbon materials can be produced using lignin in combination with synthetic phenolic resins or naturally occurring lingo-cellulosic materials. The lignin, which is essentially a naturally occurring phenolic resin, has a carbon yield on pyrolysis similar to that of the synthetic resins, which aids processing. The lignin can be used as a binder phase for synthetic resin or lignocellulosic materials allowing the production of monolithic carbons from a wide range of precursors, as the primary structural material where the thermal processing is modified by the addition of small quantities of synthetic resin materials or as structure modified in the production of meso/macro porous carbons in either bead, granular or monolithic form. A carbonised monolith is provided comprising mesoporous and/or macroporous carbon particles dispersed in a matrix of microporous carbon particles with voids between the particles defining paths for fluid to flow into and through the structure. The monolith may take the form of a shaped body having walls defining a multiplicity of internal transport channels for fluid flow, the transport channels being directed along the extrusion direction. The monolith may be made by carbonising a shaped phenolic body based on phenolic resin precursors. In a method for producing such a carbonisable shaped resin body solid particles of a first phenolic resin are provided which is partially cured so that the particles are sinterable but do not melt on carbonisation. The particles of the first phenolic resin are mixed with particles of a second phenolic resin that has a greater degree of cure than said first phenolic resin and has a mesoporous and/or macroporous microstructure that is preserved on carbonisation. The resulting mixture is formed into a dough e.g. by mixing the resin particles with methyl cellulose, PEO and water, after which the dough is extruded to form a shaped product and stabilising in its shape by sintering.

To provide an activated carbon molded article which can satisfactorily adsorb an evaporated fuel emitted from an automobile and can achieve low evaporated fuel emission performance during the long-time parking of an automobile. An activated carbon molded article having a specific surface area per volume, which is calculated from a specific surface area determined by the BET multipoint method and a packing density determined in accordance with JIS K 1474, of 290 to 520 m.sup.2/mL, and also having an outer surface area per volume of 1.4 m.sup.2/L or more.

A carbon material having a continuous porous structure oriented to the stretching axis is provided, which carbon material can be used as a structural material excellent in interfacial adhesion. The porous carbon material has a continuous porous structure in at least a portion thereof, in which the continuous porous structure has an orientation degree measured by a small-angle X-ray scattering method or an X-ray CT method of 1.10 or more.

The present invention relates to the technical field of electroacoustic products, and discloses sound-absorbing material, sound-absorbing particle, speaker module manufacturing processes, a particle and a module. The process comprises the following steps: placing a raw powder of a porous sound-absorbing material into a heating furnace to perform calcination, and introducing a processing gas during the calcination, wherein the calcination temperature is 120 C. to 800 C., and the calcination time is 6 h to 72 h.

Disclosed here is a method for making an architected three-dimensional aerogel, comprising providing a photoresin comprising a solvent, a photoinitiator, a crosslinkable polymer precursor, and a precursor for graphene, metal oxide or metal chalcogenide; curing the photoresin using projection microstereolithography layer-by-layer to produce a wet gel having a pre-designed three dimensional structure; drying the wet gel to produce a dry gel; and pyrolyzing the dry gel to produce an architected three-dimensional aerogel. Also disclosure is a photoresin for projection microstereolithography, comprising a solvent, a photoinitiator, a crosslinkable polymer precursor, and graphene oxide.