Porous carbons prepared via templating methodologies have shown excellent performance for various energy storage applications, such as electrodes in batteries, supercapacitors and as gas storage materials. Despite the impressive performances often reported, various issues such as complex and multi-step synthesis strategies have impeded their implementation in practical devices, and so there is a need to develop new, low-cost and commercially viable strategies for their fabrication. This thesis explores an unconventional method for the preparation of templated carbons - a process termed ice-templating. Ice-templating, as will be discussed in the forthcoming chapters, is a relatively simple technique holds several advantages over more conventional templating strategies. Having its own difficulties and shortcomings, only a few papers had been published on ice-templated porous carbons (ITPCs) prior to the commencement of this PhD. This thesis describes the ways in which we explored and overcame these difficulties to successfully prepare a number of ice-templated porous carbons, before evaluating their performance as materials for various energy storage devices.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:721972 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Roberts, Aled Deakin |
| Publisher | University of Liverpool |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3006170/ |
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