AC electrical measurements support microstructure model for carbonization: A comment on 'Dielectric relaxation due to interfacial polarization for heat-treated wood'

Andrew K. Kercher, Dennis C. Nagle

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Abstract

AC electrical measurements were carried out for heat-treated wood. Sugimoto and Norimoto (S&N), from these measurements, deduce that carbonized wood is a heterogeneous structure that exhibits a Maxwell-Wagner interfacial polarization, which occurs at the interface of isolated conductive regions in a dielectric matrix. The quasipercolation model explains the S&N data as well as other fundamental property changes that occur during carbonization of hard carbon materials. The important microstrucural changes in the quasipercolation model of carbonization inlcude: the predominance of small turbostratic crystallite clusters, and increasing volumetric dominance of an extensive percolating structure.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)219-221
Number of pages3
JournalCarbon
Volume42
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004

Keywords

  • A. Charcoal
  • B. Carbonization
  • D. Electrical properties
  • Dielectric properties

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