Mesocarbon atom

Activation is often conducted by processing with steam or chemical agents. Carbons activated by steam can be prepared from raw materials such as coal, peat, or lignite, which are carbonized and reacted with high-temperature water steam, in the process where fraction of carbon atoms are gasified, leaving beside porous structure. Chemically, carbon can also be activated with phosphoric acid. So-called mesocarbon microbeads (MCMBs) were produced from coal tar pitch in the Osaka... 

Figure 5 1 Activated mesocarbon microbead RAIC model, (a) Structural representation of the converged structure. The spheres represent carbon atoms that are shown at a scale much less than their van der Waals radii for reasons of clarity, (b) C-C radial distribution functions (RDF). The experimental RDF (solid line), the simulated, converged RDF (long-dashed line), and the initial simulated RDF (dotted line) are shown. The numbers indicate the different peaks of the RDF. (Adapted from Ref. [33].)...

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