Large pore volume mesoporous copper particles and scaffold microporous carbon material obtained from an inorganic–organic nanohybrid material, copper-succinate-layered hydroxide

Abstract

Copper-succinate-layered hydroxide (CSLH), a new nanohybrid material, was synthesized as an inorganic–organic nanohybrid, in which organic moiety was intercalated between the layers of a single cation layered material, copper hydroxide nitrate. Microporous scaffold carbon material was obtained by thermal decomposition of the nanohybrid at 500°C under argon atmosphere followed by acid washing process. Furthermore, the heat-treated product of the nanohybrid at 600°C was ultrafine mesoporous metallic copper particles. The results of this study confirmed the great potential of CSLH to produce the carbon material with large surface area (580m2/g) and high pore volume copper powder (2.04cm3/g).