ePubs
The open archive for STFC research publications
Home
About ePubs
Content Policies
News
Help
Privacy/Cookies
Contact ePubs
Full Record Details
Persistent URL
http://purl.org/net/epubs/work/65535
Record Status
Checked
Record Id
65535
Title
Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of a Commercial Glassy Carbon
Contributors
SF Parker (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
S Imberti (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
SK Callear (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
PW Albers (AQura GmbH)
Abstract
Glassy carbon is a form of carbon made by heating a phenolic resin to high temperature in an inert atmosphere. It has been suggested that it is composed of fullerene-like structures. The aim of the present work was to characterise the material using both structural (neutron diffraction and transmission electron microscopy) and spectroscopic (inelastic neutron scattering, Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies) methods. We find no evidence to support the suggestion of fullerene-like material being present to a significant extent, rather the model that emerges from all of the techniques is that the material is very like amorphous carbon, consisting of regions of small graphite-like basic structural units of partly stacked but mismatched structure with the edges terminated by hydrogen or hydroxyls. We do find evidence for the presence of a small quantity of water trapped in the network and suggest that this may account for batch-to-batch variation in properties that may occur.
Organisation
ISIS
,
ISIS-SANDALS
,
ISIS-TOSCA
,
STFC
Keywords
ISIS 2013
Funding Information
Related Research Object(s):
Licence Information:
Language
English (EN)
Type
Details
URI(s)
Local file(s)
Year
Journal Article
Chem Phys
427 (2013): 44-48.
doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2013.05.002
2013
Showing record 1 of 1
Recent Additions
Browse Organisations
Browse Journals/Series
Login to add & manage publications and access information for OA publishing
Username:
Password:
Useful Links
Chadwick & RAL Libraries
Jisc Open Policy Finder
Journal Checker Tool
Google Scholar