Abstract
Porous carbon materials with uniform pore diameter were successfully fabricated with various processing conditions, and their microstructures and thermo-mechanical properties were evaluated. The starting material was phenolic resin with continuous micro-pores, which have almost uniform diameter of several micron-meters. Even with different carbonization temperatures, the carbon materials showed almost the same bulk density of about 0.36g/cm^3. Compressive strength and coefficient of thermal expansion were also independent of the carbonization temperatures. On the other hand, Young's modulus of the porous carbon material was increased with temperature from about 0.5GPa to more than 1GPa.
