Surface treatments of vapor-grown carbon fibers produced on a substrate - Part II: Atomic force microscopy

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1999

Authors

José Luis Figueiredo (Author) FEUP; Serp, P (Author) Other; Nysten, B (Author) Other; Issi, JP (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Carbon

Vol. 37

Pages: 1809-1816

ISSN: 0008-6223

Publisher: Elsevier

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Authenticus ID: P-001-5E4

DOI: 10.1016/s0008-6223(99)00055-x

Abstract (EN): Vapor-grown carbon fibers (VGCF) were produced from a methane-hydrogen mixture on a substrate seeded with an iron catalyst. The fibers thus produced were submitted to different oxidative treatments: nitric acid, oxygen plasma and partial gasification with air or carbon dioxide. These fibers have been previously characterised by X-ray diffraction, SEM, nitrogen adsorption, XPS and ToF-SIMS. In the present paper we report on the examination of their surface nano-topography by atomic force microscopy (AFM).

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8