Process for synthesis of carbon beads

A process for synthesis of carbon beads, comprising:

• preparing a viscous slurry in a non-polar solvent configured to function as a disperse phase,
• wherein the viscous slurry is prepared using at least one of a binder, a crosslinker molecule, a radical polymerization initiator, and a carbon material,
• wherein each of the binder and the crosslinker molecule comprises a plurality of terminal carbon double bond groups and a spacer group,
• wherein the spacer group is a compound comprising at least one of hydrophilic chains, amphiphilic chains and any combination thereof;
• preparing a viscous gel using one or more hydrocolloids, wherein the viscous gel is configured to function as a continuous phase;
• passing the disperse phase and the continuous phase into a microfluidic droplet generator to obtain spherical droplets of a predefined size;
• subjecting the spherical droplets to one of a thermal treatment and UV radiation to obtain spherical particles of carbon beads;
• and
• drying the spherical particles of carbon beads to obtain the carbon beads of a predefined dimension.