The model of structure and structural transformation of the mesostructured carbon material CMK-1 was
established by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) investigations.
The investigations showed that the enantiomeric carbon subframeworks formed within the pores of the MCM-48 mesoporous template used for the material synthesis displaced with respect to one another without significant
distortions after the dissolution of the silica wall of the template. The model proposed agrees well with TEM
images observed. The XRD structural modeling of CMK-1 done using the continuous density function technique
allowed perfect fit of the calculated to the experimental powder diffraction pattern and provided geometric
characteristics of the material texture. The structural characteristics obtained agreed fairly well with TEM
analysis and with previously reported adsorption data.
The structure of MCM-48 mesoporous silicate materials has been fully characterized from X-ray diffraction data by applying recently developed methods of mesostructure analysis and full-profile refinement. The pore wall thickness of both as-made and calcined MCM-48 was determined with high precision to be 8.0(1) Angstrom. No regular variations of the wall thickness were detected, but its density was found to be ca. 10% higher in the low-curvature regions. The surfactant density in the pores was assessed around 0.6-0.7 g/cm(3) and was found to have a distinct minimum in the pore center similar to that detected previously in MCM-41. A new extended model function of the density distribution in MCM-48 is proposed on the basis of the structural features that were revealed.
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