Porous activated carbon spheres derived from resorcinol-formaldehyde resin with high performance for methylene blue removal

Porous carbon materials offer numerous practical uses, particularly in the field of adsorbents due to their remarkable characteristics such as low density, high surface area, strong electrical conductivity, and many other benefits. The findings on synthesizing porous carbon materials using a resorcinol-formaldehyde polymerization reaction, a gelation process, and pore water evaporation at high temperature are presented in this study. The procedure was carried out in an atmosphere containing an inert gas. Analyses of the newly created materials included X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), calculation of specific surface area using the BET equation, and many other methods. A porous carbon material with a specific surface area of 801.92 m2/g can be feasibly manufactured.