Abstract
Highly graphitized carbon with high electric conductivity was successfully prepared from non-graphitizable carbon (NGC) via breaking-down and merging of boundaries of microdomains through the potassium hydroxide (KOH) treatment and subsequent graphitization. After the graphitization at 2800℃, the KOH-treated sample showed modified domains having merged boundaries between the microdomains which could be observed in graphitizable carbon (GC). Such a domain-modified carbon showed less than half electric resistivity of graphitized NGC, indicating that macroscopic properties, such as electric conductivity, of carbon materials can be improved via the modification of nanometer-scale microdomain and domain structures.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 16-20 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Evergreen : joint journal of Novel Carbon Resource Sciences & Green Asia Strategy |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2017 |