The aim of this thesis was to develop synthesis methods for catalytically active carbon coatings with controlled pore structure. The synthesis strategy is based on evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) and soft-templating principles using resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) as a carbon precursor and amphiphilic block-copolymers as structure-directing soft-templates. The main goal was to obtain a desirable 3D pore morphology on different substrates. Hence, synthesis procedures for bulk mesoporous carbon powders prepared under acidic conditions were refined and adapted to surface coatings. The synthesis yielded porous crack-free carbon films with pore sizes depending on the employed pore template. Films templated with F127 possessed a contracted 3D cubic mesostructure (Im3m) with pores of about 8 nm width and 4 to 6 nm height. The film thickness (measured after carbonization at 600°C) could be increased up to about 820 nm by increasing the withdrawal speed of dip-coating while retaining the mesostructure. The films templated with F127 possess high surface areas up to 520 m2/cm3 (BET) and pore volumes up to 0.45 cm3/cm3. Templating with different polymers (PIB-PEO 3000 as well as 10k-PB polymers) resulted in increased pore diameters up to 20 nm (measured in the direction parallel to the substrate). Also here, an increase in withdrawal speed of dip-coating increased the film thickness up to 640 nm. However, thicker films templated with PIB-PEO 3000 exhibited a reduced degree of mesopore order.In order to synthesize mesoporous carbon films containing catalytically active metal particles the synthesis procedure was extended to incorporate also appropriate Pd and Pt precursors. The synthesis employing F127 as a template yielded high quality, uniform mesoporous carbon coatings containing either Pd or Pt particles. Pd loading as high as 3 wt% were successfully reached. The Pd/C films carbonized at 600°C possess a contracted Im3m mesopore structure with uniform pore sizes of ~8 nm in the direction parallel to the substrate and ~6 nm in the direction perpendicular to the substrate. A thickness of ~400 nm, a surface area of 587 m2/cm3 (BET) and well-distributed Pd particles with a uniform size of ~15 nm were obtained. The synthesis procedure for mesoporous Pd/C catalyst films was then adapted to coat also steel plates, which are typically used as substrates in a catalytic reactor. The facile and reproducible synthesis of these catalyst coatings allowed for up scaling up to 25 steel plates with identical features for both mesopore structure and Pd particles. The Pd-containing mesoporous carbon coatings on the steel plates were tested as catalysts for gas-phase hydrogenation of 1,3-butadiene. The Pd/C catalyst coatings proved to be highly active and selective with conversions of up to 80% at a reaction temperature of 80°C and high selectivity to butenes of up to ~95%.
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