“…Compared with SBA-15, MCSI-0.4 samples also showed meso-structures with P6mm symmetry, as seen in the presence of (100), (110), and (200) diffraction peaks, suggesting that the organic carbon source (furfuryl alcohol) was involved in binding the framework of mesoporous materials during the formation of the mesostructured silica-carbon composites. As shown in Figure 3a, the diffraction peaks of MCSI-0.4 were slightly shifted to higher values, which can be attributed to structural shrinkage during carbonization at high temperature (1023 K) [17,18]. Weaker (100), (110), and (200) diffraction peaks of MCSI-0.4 samples, compared to SBA-15, were the result of introducing an organic carbon source, which caused the structural regularity of the meso-structured silica-carbon composites to decrease.…”