Patent ID: 8197786

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a porous carbon material, the method comprising: heat treating a coordination polymer to form a carbon-metal oxide composite; and removing metal oxide from the carbon-metal composite to form the porous carbon material, wherein the coordination polymer comprises a compound having a unit cell structure represented by Formula 1: M x L y S z Formula 1 wherein: M is a metal selected from the group consisting of transition metals, Group 13 metals, Group 14 metals, Group 15 metals, lanthanides and actinides; L is a multi-dentate ligand ionically or covalently bonded to at least two metal ions; S is a monodentate ligand ionically or covalently bonded to one metal ion; d is a number of functional groups of L that can bind to a metal ion; and x, y and z are integers satisfying yd+z≦6x.