This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor in Chief due to very significant similarity between it and another published article by the same author (“Modifying the pore structure of Pit-ACF with the chemical vapor deposition of methane and propylene”, by Jinchuan Xie, Xuhui Wang, Jiyong Deng, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Vol 76, p167–175, December 2004 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387181104003130), specially Fig. 1-4 and Table 1-2 came from the partial results in Micropor. Mesopor. Mat. 2004 76 167–75. The corresponding author J. Xie takes full responsibility and apologizes for the academic misconduct.