CARBON SUPPORT WITH TAILORED POROSITY

A method of mesoporous carbon support production includes providing an active silica template from a self-assembling block copolymer (BCP) in a solution, the BCP including a diblock copolymer of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as a majority block and a hydrocarbon polymer as a minority block in a predetermined volume fraction, the BCP being in a form of nanodroplets, drying and annealing the nanodroplets, ashing away the hydrocarbon polymer of the minority block to obtain the active silica template, applying a carbon precursor onto the active silica template, and removing the active silica template to obtain a mesoporous carbon support as a reverse image of the template.