One-pot synthesis of ordered mesoporous carbon/CdS composites

Ordered mesoporous carbon/CdS composites have been synthesized by a “one-pot” assembly strategy associated with a direct carbonization process using phenolic resol as the carbon source, thiocarbamide and cadmium nitrate as matrix precursor and amphiphilic tri block copolymer Pluronic F127 as a template. The composite structure was characterized by XRD, BET and TEM. The obtained mesoporous CdS/carbon composites with ordered mesostructures have uniform pore sizes (3.5–4.1 nm) and high specific surface areas (554.2 m 2 /g). The CdS nanoparticles were dispersed evenly on the mesoporous carbon surface. The mesostructure ordering decreases with the increase of CdS content. [New Carbon Materials 2014, 29(6): 481–485]