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1、ChemCommViewArticleOnlineFEATUREARTICLEViewJournalRecentadvancesincarbonnanospheres:syntheticroutesandapplicationsCitethis:DOI:10.1039/c5cc01759aaaabPengfeiZhang,Zhen-AnQiaoandShengDai*Carbon-basedmaterialsarethemostpopularmaterialtypesinbothfundamentalresearchandindustrialapplications,partlybec
2、auseoftheirwell-controllednano-morphologies.Inthepasttwodecades,wehavewitnessedanumberofbreakthroughsincarbonresearch:fullerenes,carbonnanotubes,andmorerecentlygraphene.Nowadays,carbonnanospheresareattractingmoreandmoreattentionworldwideduetotheirexcellentperformanceinvariousfields:drugdelivery,
3、heterogeneouscatalysis,encapsulationofsupportandelectrodematerials.Actually,sphericalcarbonisanoldmaterial,whereascontrollingcarbonspheresinthenanometerrangeisarecentstory.Inthepast5years,ithasbecomepossibletopreciselycontroltheparticlesize,surfacearea,poresize,chemicalcomposition,anddispersityo
4、fcarbonnanospheres.Towardthisend,anumberofsyntheticstrategiesareemerging,suchashydrothermalReceived28thFebruary2015,carbonizationofbiomass-basedresources,extendedSto¨bersynthesis,andorganic–organicself-assemblyAccepted2ndApril2015viadifferentbindingmethods.Inthisfeaturearticle,wesummarizerecentr
5、outesforcarbonnanospheresDOI:10.1039/c5cc01759aandbrieflytouchontheirapplicationstoshedlightonthepotentialofthisfield.Throughoutthisarticle,aspecialemphasisisplacedonthepossiblemodulationofsphericalstructuresatthenanoscale,andwewww.rsc.org/chemcommwishtoinspiremanymoredesignsandapplicationsofcar
6、bonnanostructuresinthenearfuture.1.Introductiontheirenhancedperformanceinawidevarietyofapplications,suchascatalystsorcatalystsupports,electrodematerials,and1Nowadays,functionalcarbonnanosphereswithcontrollableadsorbents.Inprinciple,porouscarbonnanospherescansize,surfacemorphology,porosity,andche
7、micalcompositionprovidegreaterporeaccessibilityandfastermoleculardiffusion/areanappealingtopicinthecarboncommunitybecauseoftransfer,whichareofcrucialimportanceincarbon-basedprocesses.Carbonsupportsforheterogeneouscatalysisare