Porous carbon materials are of immense interest in variety of fields such as drug delivery, hydrogen storage as well as CO2 capture, energy storage and conversion, solar cell, electrochemical sensing etc. On the basis of pore diameters, porous carbon materials are categorised into three major types such as (i) microporous (pore size < 2nm), (ii) mesoporous (2nm < pore size < 50 nm), and (iii) macroporous (pore size > 50 nm) . Conventional porous carbon-based candidates are prepared by activation (physical or chemical) of bio waste like coal, willow wood, corn cob, coconut coir pith under thermal annealing at higher temperatures . The most exciting feature of porous carbon materials is that ultrahigh surface area (3000 m 2 g -1 ) which is highly beneficial for electrochemical energy storage applications . However, there are some drawbacks suffered from activated porous carbon materials. They are (a) sluggish mass transport of molecules due to space restriction forced as a result of small pore sizes, (b) less conductivity because of the various surface functionalities and defects and (c) deterioration of pore structures during thermal heat-treatment. To solve all these issues, other synthetic strategies should be followed as (i) physical or chemical activation (ii) pyrolysis of carbon precursors (one thermosetting component and thermally unstable compound) (iii) catalyst aided activation of carbon precursors (iv) pyrolysis of aerogels or cryogels (v) Hard template synthesis and (vi) soft template involving self-assembly polymerisation followed by pyrolysis . Mesoporous carbon materials are prepared by the methods (i) to (iv) but resulted with broad pore-size distributions, and have huge number of micropores. The story was started during early 1980s, when Knox and coworkers explored the synthesis of MC by utilizing spherical solid silica gel as the hard template, which serve as molds for replication of MC materials, without involving significant chemical interactions between templates and carbon precursors . The hard templates predetermine the corresponding porous structures, which have well-defined nanostructures.