Surfactant-templated synthesis of resorcinol-formaldehyde polymer and carbon nanostructures: Nanospheres and nanowires

Abstract

Thermosetting polymer nanospheres and nanowires have been synthesized by the NaOH-catalyzed polymerization of resorcinol and formaldehyde in the presence of cetyltrimethyl-ammonium bromide as a core template together with/without trimethylbenzene as an additive and topotactically converted into their carbonized forms. Copyright © 2006 The Chemical Society of Japan.