THERMAL ANNEALING METHODS FOR THE RESTRUCTURING OF DISORDERED CARBON MATERIALS

The structural analysis of carbons formed by thermally-induced annealing of an anisotropic carbon as naphthalene pitch is presented in this work. Naphthalene pitch has been heated in a furnace in mild conditions (low pressure and temperature <= 1000 °C). The carbonization/ graphitization process has been found to occur at a different extent in dependence of the experimental conditions employed for the annealing.