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C-JOURNAL OF CARBON RESEARCH
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/c4020022
Keywords
carbon materials; Boehm titration; quantitative analysis; oxygen-containing groups; validation
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- Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany (BMBF) [03WKCN02D]
- State of Thuringia within the ProExzellenz program
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The use of the Boehm titration (BT) method as an analytical tool for the quantification of oxygen-containing surface groups is systematically investigated for oxidized carbon black, carbon nanotubes and two active carbons with specific surface areas between 60 and 1750 m(2) g(-1). The accuracy of the BT method is quantitatively compared with results from elemental analysis (EA), temperature programmed desorption (TPD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Overall, the results from TPD are in line with the values obtained by BT. Both show the equal ratio of the oxygen groups to each other. Within the series of carbon samples, all methods provide similar trends for the total oxygen content yet the absolute numbers are deviating significantly. Reasons for these discrepancies are discussed and linked to the specific characteristics of the different methods. As the BT method is a solution based method, it only probes the surface fraction of the carbon that is accessible to the base solution. That means, it probes the relevant fraction for applications where carbon is in contact to aqueous solutions. Overall, the BT method can be conveniently applied to a broad range of carbon materials as long as the samples are sufficiently hydrophilic and of the enough sample amount is provided.
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