Derived carbon materials
New multifunctional porous materials derived from wood

Although known since prehistoric times, carbon is still associated with today's most advanced technologies. Indeed, it is the basis of materials whose extremely diverse properties make it a unique element: chemical and thermal resistance, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity or insulating properties, impermeability or permeability, porosity or non-porosity, sometimes extremely high specific surface areas, lightness, high mechanical strength or ductility. This non-exhaustive list of sometimes highly antagonistic properties reflects the immense variety of textures that the element carbon can generate. Each particular texture, established during the controlled pyrolysis of well-chosen precursors, corresponds to a given functionality, and modification of the texture leads to modification of the associated properties