Advanced Industrial Carbon Technology

Dr. Om P. Bahl is currently the President of the Indian Carbon Society and an Emeritus Scientist in the Carbon Technology Unit at the Council Of Scientific and Industrial Research–National Physical Laboratory (CSIR–NPL), New Delhi. He has served on the Board of Directors of HEG Ltd and has been an R&D advisor to major scientific institutions and industries. Dr. Bahl served the United Nations as Chief Technical Advisor in Brazil in 1981 and as a UN Expert in Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland in 1988 and 1989. He has edited several books, published numerous research articles, and successfully developed and transferred various carbon-related technologies to reputable carbon industries in India. He holds eleven patents for various carbon-related technologies. Dr. Swati Sharma is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi. Before joining IIT Mandi in 2019, she spent over five years as a Scientist and Group Leader at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Freiburg in Germany. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, USA, in 2013. Prior to that, she worked as a Researcher at UNIST, South Korea, for one year. She completed her B.E. (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, in 2004, and subsequently worked as a Research Scientist for over four years at Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, Gurgaon.Her current research focuses on carbon materials and manufacturing, including the development of a new microstructural model for non-graphitizing carbons and the confirmation of fullerenes within this class of carbon materials.Dr. Marc Monthioux is Research Director Emeritus at CNRS and currently works at the Center for the Preparation of Materials and Structural Studies (CEMES) in Toulouse, France. He has decades of experience in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of various carbon materials, including natural sources like kerogens and coals, as well as technological materials such as fibers, composites, fullerenes, nanotubes, graphene, and diamane.Dr. Monthioux has collaborated with numerous international companies and is Honorary Editor of Carbon and Advisory Editor of Carbon Trends (Elsevier). He is a former chairman of the French Carbon Society and the European Carbon Association. He hosted the World Conference on Carbon in 2009 and received the European Carbon Association Award in 2022.

• Part 1: Introduction to carbon materials1. Carbon in the 21st century2. Introduction to carbon materials: from bulk crystalline solids to nanomaterials3. Allotropes of carbon4. Hybridisation5. Precursors for carbon preparation6. Heat-treatment of organic materials7 Effect of heat-treatment on properties of carbon8 Nomenclature9 General characterisation techniques10 Overview of industrial applications of carbon11 Conclusions and prospects ReferencesPart 2: Pitches1. History of tar and pitch evolution2. Production of coal tar pitch3. Development of impregnating coal-tar pitch4. Development of impregnating petroleum pitches5. Mesophase development6. Pitch shelf-life, storage and transportation7. Testing of pitches8. Toxic effects of pitch9. Conclusions and prospects ReferencesPart 3: Extruded polycrystalline graphite1. Background2. Fabrication of graphite electrodes3. Future trends4. Testing/characterisation of graphite electrodes (astm standards)5 Conclusions and prospects ReferencesPart 4: Carbon fibres1. Introduction2. Pan-based carbon fibres3. Cellulose-based carbon fibres4. Pitch-based carbon fibres5. Vapour-grown carbon fibres (vgcfs)6. Current trends and prospects7. Conclusions ReferencesPart 5: Carbon fibre-based composites1. Introduction2. Manufacturing of carbon fibre-based composites3. Mechanical properties of cfrps4. Carbon/carbon composites5. Applications and state-of-the-art6. Recent advancements and challenges7. Conclusions ReferencesPart 6: Isotropic graphites1. Introduction2. Preparation of isotropic graphites3. Classification of isotropic graphites4. Manufacturing of isotropic graphite (flow diagram)5. Structure of isotropic graphite (datasheets from leading manufacturers)6. Conclusion and prospects ReferencesPart 7: Non-graphitisable carbons1. Introduction2. Microstructure of non-graphitisable carbons3 Characterisation of non-graphitisable carbons4. Glass-like carbons (glassy carbons)5. Porous and activated carbons6. Carbon coatings7. Conclusions and prospects ReferencesPart 8: Carbon nanoforms1. Introduction2. Three nanosized dimensions (0d nanoforms)3. Two nanosized dimensions (1d nanoforms)4. One nanosized dimension (2d nanoforms)5. Conclusions References