Electrochemical properties of activated ordered mesoporous carbon (OMC) containing nickel inclusions are investigated using cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic charge/discharge techniques The hard template route prepared OMC is of structurally well ordered two dimensional hexagonal structure with a high specific surface area of 1896 95 cm(2) g(-1) a pore volume of 1 781 cm(3) g(-1) and a pore size of 5 1 nm, respectively It is shown that OMC/0 3Ni electrode displays the highest specific capacitance of 186 1 Fg(-1) almost 1 4 times higher than that of pure OMC electrode The hydrogen storage capacity of pure OMC electrode is 87 mAh g(-1) and there exists no discharge platform With the amount of nickel addition increasing there appears a relatively stable discharge platform, and the discharge capacity reaches a maximum of 170 mAh g(-1) as the molar ratio of Ni OMC is 0 3 almost two times higher than that of pure OMC electrode The electrochemical properties of OMC can be greatly improved with incorporation of nickel powders The Ni activated OMC electrodes display a high capacity retainability with strong resistance against oxidation and corrosion (C) 2010 Professor T Nejat Veziroglu Published by Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved