High yield one-step synthesis of carbon spheres produced by dissociating individual hydrocarbons at their autogenic pressure at low temperatures

Carbon

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3285-3292

  Pol, Vilas Ganpat ^a   Pol, Swati Vilas ^a   Calderon Moreno, Jose M ^b   Gedanken, Aharon ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon microbeads; Heat treatment; Scanning electron microscopy; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

DISSOCIATION; HEAT TREATMENT; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANOMETALLICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AUTOGENIC PRESSURE; CARBON MICROBEADS; COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS; DIPHENYLMETHANE;

HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 33750402418     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.06.023     Document Type: Article

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