Journal
CARBON
Volume 48, Issue 13, Pages 3968-3970Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.06.032
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- Hungary-Spain Integrated Actions Programme [ESP-3/2006, HH2006-0026]
- CSIC - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Spanish CSIC
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Poly(p-phenylene benzobisoxazole) (PBO) fibres, heat-treated between 900 and 2700 degrees C, were studied by both small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering, and by HRTEM. As directly imaged by HRTEM, the material treated at 900 degrees C consists of nanometre-sized graphitic domains with a microtexture that resembles non-graphitisable carbon. However, above 2000 degrees C, these elongated structures coalesce, yielding highly graphitised lamellar carbon. This graphitisation mode is very different from the conventional progressive graphitisation of lamellar carbon. It is similar to that of polyimide films, and is characterized by a preferential planar orientation of the polyaromatic structural units inherited from the pristine fibre microtexture. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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