The Preparation of Flaky Layered Carbon by Using Layered Silicate Template

Porous layered carbons with well-developed flake structure were successfully prepared by using layered silicate template. The gallery of layered silicate is composed of two-dimensional spaces with nano scale, which can have a role as nano reactor for chemicals introduced into the gallery. It confirmed that PFO, in this nano reactor, could be transformed easily to layered carbon or graphite structure by the heat treatment, allowing layered carbon-layered silicate nanocomposite (LC-LSN) piled carbon film or graphite sheet in layers of layered silicate. The removal of template from LC-LSN resulted in separated and well-developed flaky layered carbon or graphite with large surface area of 160-240 m²/g, which was quite different from carbon black and activated carbon. In recent years, the preparation and application of nanostructure carbon materials such as carbon nanotube and nanoporous carbon has attracted increasing interests. We now report on the preparation of flaky layered carbon by using layered silicates as template. These layered carbons should be applicable potentially in technical field such as the electronics, catalytic and hydrogen-storage system. Layered silicates have exchangeable cations such as Na⁺, K⁺, Ca²⁺ and Mg²⁺ in the interlayer space