Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Synthesis of ordered carbonaceous frameworks from organic crystals

  • Hirotomo Nishihara,
  • Tetsuya Hirota,
  • Kenta Matsuura,
  • Mao Ohwada,
  • Norihisa Hoshino,
  • Tomoyuki Akutagawa,
  • Takeshi Higuchi,
  • Hiroshi Jinnai,
  • Yoshitaka Koseki,
  • Hitoshi Kasai,
  • Yoshiaki Matsuo,
  • Jun Maruyama,
  • Yuichiro Hayasaka,
  • Hisashi Konaka,
  • Yasuhiro Yamada,
  • Shingi Yamaguchi,
  • Kazuhide Kamiya,
  • Takuya Kamimura,
  • Hirofumi Nobukuni,
  • Fumito Tani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00152-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Carbon-based materials are promising alternatives to noble metal catalysts, but their structures are typically disordered and difficult to control. Here, the authors obtain ordered carbonaceous frameworks with advantageous electrocatalytic properties via the carbonization of nickel-containing porphyrin dimer networks.