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Thermal Degradation of Polymers to Polymeric Carbon—An Approach to the Synthesis of New Materials
Author(s) -
Fitzer Erich
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198003751
Subject(s) - carbonization , materials science , polymer , carbon fibers , raw material , degradation (telecommunications) , economic shortage , pyrolysis , incandescent light bulb , thermal decomposition , polymer science , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , composite material , organic chemistry , chemistry , computer science , engineering , composite number , scanning electron microscope , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
One hundred years ago, Edison succeeded in preparing carbon fibers for his incandescent lamp bulb by thermal decomposition of natural polymeric fibers. Ten years ago, progress reports about “Novel Forms of Carbon” predicted outstanding properties and promising new applications for the carbonization products of synthetic polymers. Research and development in this field have been promoted by the problems of conventional technology (shortages of raw material and energy, pollution problems). Polymeric carbon materials—prepared by thermal degradation of synthetic polymers—exhibit a special ribbon‐like microstructure. They will provide the chemist with many challenges.