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Title Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of a Commercial Glassy Carbon
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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
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Journal Article Chem Phys 427 (2013): 44-48. doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2013.05.002 2013