Advanced Industrial Carbon Technology (Acta Materialia Book Series)

Bahl, O. P./ Sharma, Swati/ Monthioux, Marc

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division（2026/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 500 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780443449017

Full Description

Advanced Industrial Carbon Technology offers a comprehensive overview of modern carbon materials and manufacturing technologies that are highly relevant to industry in the 21st century. It covers detailed preparation methods for various carbon materials, including graphite electrodes, isotropic graphite, non-graphitizable carbon, carbon nanomaterials, and notably, carbon fibers and their composites. It also offers specifications, comparisons, and applications of commercially available carbon materials from leading producers. Emphasis is placed on raw materials, synthesis processes, and necessary modifications to achieve superior quality carbon products. Drawing on extensive academic and industrial experience, the authors share their practical insights, solutions, and contributions to both research-oriented and industrial carbon technologies, providing readers with real-world applications and examples that highlight key concepts in effective technology transfer from academia to industry. This resource serves as a complete guide for beginners and advanced students, scholars, and industry professionals working with technologically significant carbon materials.

Contents

Part 1: Introduction to carbon materials
1. Carbon in the 21st century
2. Introduction to carbon materials: from bulk crystalline solids to nanomaterials
3. Allotropes of carbon
4. Hybridisation
5. Precursors for carbon preparation
6. Heat-treatment of organic materials
7 Effect of heat-treatment on properties of carbon
8 Nomenclature
9 General characterisation techniques
10 Overview of industrial applications of carbon
11 Conclusions and prospects References

Part 2: Pitches
1. History of tar and pitch evolution
2. Production of coal tar pitch
3. Development of impregnating coal-tar pitch
4. Development of impregnating petroleum pitches
5. Mesophase development
6. Pitch shelf-life, storage and transportation
7. Testing of pitches
8. Toxic effects of pitch
9. Conclusions and prospects References

Part 3: Extruded polycrystalline graphite
1. Background
2. Fabrication of graphite electrodes
3. Future trends
4. Testing/characterisation of graphite electrodes (astm standards)
5 Conclusions and prospects References

Part 4: Carbon fibres
1. Introduction
2. Pan-based carbon fibres
3. Cellulose-based carbon fibres
4. Pitch-based carbon fibres
5. Vapour-grown carbon fibres (vgcfs)
6. Current trends and prospects
7. Conclusions References

Part 5: Carbon fibre-based composites
1. Introduction
2. Manufacturing of carbon fibre-based composites
3. Mechanical properties of cfrps
4. Carbon/carbon composites
5. Applications and state-of-the-art
6. Recent advancements and challenges
7. Conclusions References

Part 6: Isotropic graphites
1. Introduction
2. Preparation of isotropic graphites
3. Classification of isotropic graphites
4. Manufacturing of isotropic graphite (flow diagram)
5. Structure of isotropic graphite (datasheets from leading manufacturers)
6. Conclusion and prospects References

Part 7: Non-graphitisable carbons
1. Introduction
2. Microstructure of non-graphitisable carbons
3 Characterisation of non-graphitisable carbons
4. Glass-like carbons (glassy carbons)
5. Porous and activated carbons
6. Carbon coatings
7. Conclusions and prospects References

Part 8: Carbon nanoforms
1. Introduction
2. Three nanosized dimensions (0d nanoforms)
3. Two nanosized dimensions (1d nanoforms)
4. One nanosized dimension (2d nanoforms)
5. Conclusions References