A turbostratic carbon with high specific surface area from 1,4-benzenedimethanol

Porous carbon xerogels with texture tailored by pH control during sol–gel process

“…According to previous studies [2,6,24,25], the polymerisation mechanism includes two steps: (i) formation of resorcinol anions by hydrogen abstraction (enhanced by OH À ) and formaldehyde addition to obtain hydroxymethyl derivatives; (ii) condensation of the hydroxymethyl derivatives and cluster growth (catalysed by H þ ).…”