Patent ID: 7390474

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a porous material having a reticulated skeleton in which: (1) the reticulated skeleton comprises an interior and a surface component; (2) the surface component includes a carbon material; and (3) the interior comprises a) empty space, or b) an inorganic oxide and empty space, wherein the method comprises in the following order: step 1 of obtaining a carbon precursor-containing wet gel by imparting a carbon precursor to a wet gel of an inorganic oxide having a reticulated skeleton; step 2 of obtaining a carbon precursor wet gel by removing all or part of the inorganic oxide from the carbon precursor-containing wet gel; step 3 of obtaining a carbon precursor-containing dry gel by subjecting the carbon precursor wet gel to supercritical drying; and step 4 of obtaining a carbon-containing porous material by subjecting the carbon precursor-containing dry gel to a carbonization treatment.