Preparation and Characterization of Fibrous Cerium Oxide Templated from Activated Carbon Fibers

2005 ◽  
Vol 876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Crocker ◽  
Uschi M. Graham ◽  
Rolando Gonzalez ◽  
Erin Morris ◽  
Gary Jacobs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Cerium Oxide ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Nitrate Solution ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Cerium Nitrate ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Templating Method

AbstractHigh surface area cerium oxide has been prepared using a carbon templating method. Impregnation of a highly mesoporous activated carbon (Darco KB-B) with an aqueous solution of cerium nitrate, followed by carbon burn off, afforded ceria with surface area of up to 148 m2/g. According to thermogravimetric studies, ceria formation proceeds via decomposition of cerium nitrate at ca. 410 K; oxidation of the carbon template commences at the same temperature, being facilitated by the release of NO2 from the Ce compound. Use of activated carbon fibers (ACFs) as template was found to provide a simple route to fibrous cerium oxide. The lower surface areas (3 - 59 m2/g) of the resulting ceria fibers reflect the largely microporous nature of the ACFs; evidently the Ce nitrate solution is unable to penetrate their micropores. Consequently, the surface area of the ceria product is found to increase with increasing mesoporosity of the ACF template. Electron microscopy reveals that the ceria fibers are composed of highly crystalline primary particles of 5-10 nm diameter; further, the fibers display a number of interesting morphological features at the macro- and nano-scales.

scholarly journals Preparation, Surface and Pore Structure of High Surface Area Activated Carbon Fibers from Bamboo by Steam Activation

Materials ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 4431-4441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojun Ma ◽  
Hongmei Yang ◽  
Lili Yu ◽  
Yin Chen ◽  
Ying Li
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Pore Structure ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Steam Activation

Preparation and characterization of high-surface-area activated carbon fibers from silkworm cocoon waste for congo red adsorption

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Li ◽  
Dickon H.L. Ng ◽  
Peng Song ◽  
Chao Kong ◽  
Yi Song ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
Congo Red ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Silkworm Cocoon

scholarly journals Developing Lignosulfonate-Based Activated Carbon Fibers

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-Cheng Chang ◽  
Shih-Hsuan Yen ◽  
Szu-Han Wang
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
Loss Rate ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Physical Activation ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Weight Loss Rate

In this study, electrospinning technology, physical activation, and carbonization processing were applied to produce lignosulfonate-based activated carbon fibers. The porous structure of the produced lignosulfonate-based activated carbon fibers primarily contained mesopores and a relatively small amount of micropores. Moreover, insufficient carbonization caused fiber damage during CO2 activation. The weight loss rate and specific surface area increased with increase in carbonization time, and products with carbonization temperatures of 700 °C were of higher quality than those with other temperatures. Moreover, the two-step carbonization process provided fibers with improved quality because of a low weight loss rate, improved processing, and high surface area. Lignosulfonate-based activated carbon fibers can be used as a highly efficient adsorption and filtration material, and further development of its applications would be valuable.

scholarly journals Photoconductivity of activated carbon fibers

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 1040-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Kuriyama ◽  
M.S. Dresselhaus
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Localized States ◽  
Activated Carbon Fibers ◽  
Disordered Carbon ◽  
Increasing Temperature

The conductivity and photoconductivity are measured on a high-surface-area disordered carbon material, i.e., activated carbon fibers, to investigate their electronic properties. This material is a highly disordered carbon derived from a phenolic precursor, having a huge specific surface area of 1000–2000 m2/g. Our preliminary thermopower measurements show that the dominant carriers are holes at room temperature. The x-ray diffraction pattern reveals that the microstructure is amorphous-like with Lc ≃ 10 Å. The intrinsic electrical conductivity, on the order of 20 S/cm at room temperature, increases by a factor of several with increasing temperature in the range 30–290 K. In contrast, the photoconductivity in vacuum decreases with increasing temperature. The magnitude of the photoconductive signal was reduced by a factor of ten when the sample was exposed to air. The recombination kinetics changes from a monomolecular process at room temperature to a bimolecular process at low temperatures, indicative of an increase in the photocarrier density at low temperatures. The high density of localized states, which limits the motion of carriers and results in a slow recombination process, is responsible for the observed photoconductivity.

Activated carbon fiber from liquefied wood and polyvinyl butyral as an additive for production of flexible all-carbon yarn supercapacitors

Holzforschung ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 367-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxiang Huang ◽  
Wenji Yu ◽  
Guangjie Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Polyvinyl Butyral ◽  
Activated Carbon Fiber ◽  
Bet Surface Area ◽  
Liquefied Wood ◽  
New Material

AbstractA novel way to prepare mesoporous activated carbon fibers (ACFs-P) has been developed, while the ACFs-P with high surface area were obtained from liquefied wood by combining polyvinyl butyral (PVB) blending and steam activation. The porosity properties of the new material was investigated by N2adsorption and the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area was found to be 2710 m2g−1and a pore volume of 1.540 cm3g−1, of which 58.2% was mesoporous with diameters between 3 and 6 nm. ACFs-P had a higher methylene blue (MB) adsorption capacity (962 mg/g) than the PVB-added carbon fibers (CFs-P) and ACFs-P without PVB (ACFs-C). Flexible all-carbon yarn supercapacitors can be produced from ACFs-P as powder or fiber. The fiber approach led to yarn supercapacitors with a less favorable electrochemical performance than the powder based production owing to the poor strength of the fibers. A 10 cm long yarn supercapacitor from the powdered ACFs exhibited a high specific length capacitance of 43 mF cm−1at 2 mV s−1. Yarn supercapacitors showed an excellent mechanical flexibility and its capacitor properties were not diminished after bending or crumpling.

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