Pyrolysis to Porous Carbonaceous Structures

Mag- 100KX FilaNama v/acuum Mcxla = High Vacuum 

The presence of carbon fibres in ARBOFORM can also stabilize the structure and act as precursor. Unpyrolysed ARBOFORM F45 is a biocomposite with a low electrical conductivity - this means that it is an isolating material. The conductivity of the material can be adjusted on one hand by precipitation of metal particles onto the reinforcing natural fibres (see above) but on the other hand also by varying the pyrolysis temperature. When pyrolysed at 600 °C conductivity is still low, but pyrolysed at 1000 °C, a reasonable conductivity value is obtained, which substantially decreases when the material is pyrolysed at 1200 °C. A report on more detailed investigations can be found in ref. [76]. 

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