Journal
JOURNAL OF POROUS MATERIALS
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 181-190Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10934-006-9023-0
Keywords
activated carbon cloth; acrylic fibers; microporous materials; physical activation; X-ray diffraction; nitrogen adsorption
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The production of micro and mesoporous activated carbon cloth (ACC) from commercial acrylic textile fibres by physical activation with carbon dioxide and the addition of boric acid and sodium hydrogen phosphate as impregnants is reported. The use of sodium hydrogen phosphate leads to samples with greater mesopore volume whereas other ACC production conditions studied mainly result in microporous materials. This work demonstrates that it is possible to produce carbon materials from a commercial acrylic textile cloth with the maintenance of the precursor shape, as shown by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The materials are formed from layers of aromatic sheets that in a nanoscale resemble graphite and X-ray diffraction studies indicate microcrystallites with dimensions between 5.9 and 7.6 nm for L (a) (width) and between 2.4 and 2.7 nm for L (c) (height), corresponding to 7 to 8 parallel graphene layers.
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