Abstract: The recent development of ordered mesoporous polymers and mesostrucutured carbon synthesized by self-assembly, hard template, and soft template methods is summarized. The above three synthetic methods and principle of mesoporous polymer are compared. It is pointed out that the way of using self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers and soft template exhibited much more advantage compared with hard template method to synthesize ordered mesoporous polymers and mesoporous carbon. Obviously, the morphology, meosoporous structure, skeleton chemical structure and physical and chemical properties of mesoporous materials synthesized by using amphiphilic block copolymer method and soft template method are distinctly affected by amphiphilic block copolymer types, template types and structure of polymer precursors. It is also pointed out that the main problems in the study of ordered mesoporous polymers and carbon are improving the regularity of ordered mesoporous polymers and the stability of mesoporous structure. Finally, the developing direction and application fields of ordered mesoporous polymers and carbon are looked forward to.

Key words: ordered mesoporous polymer, mesostructured carbon, self-assembly, soft template, hard template