“…13 In the synthesis, various organic compounds introduced by either wet impregnation or chemical vapour deposition (CVD) were normally carbonized using porous silicas as sacricial scaffolds for the replication of porous carbon materials with controlled structures. [14][15][16] In general, organic compounds, such as sucrose, furfuryl alcohol, phenol resin, and acrylonitrile, can be used as carbon sources, 8 the key to nanocasting approach lies in the polymerization of organic feeds inside the mesoporous silica channels, which is achieved by the incorporation of an acid into the silica template before converted to mesoporous carbon by pyrolysis. 17 Therefore, the successful synthesis of mesoporous carbon through this method relys on the impregnated organic source lling the entire pore and retain the rigid matrix aer chemical etching by hydrouoric acid (HF) or a sodium hydroxide solution.…”