The coke PV-7, prepared by carbonizing polyvinylchloride to 680°C, was heat-treated at different temperatures and residence times in the flow of nitrogen and under reduced pressure of about 0.02 Torr. On these heat-treated samples, the relations between mean lattice spacing
c0 and crystallite sizes
Lc (00
l) and between strain along the c-axis ε
c and -c
0 were investigated.
The results are summarized as follows,
1) The graphitization process of PV-7 seems to consist of two stages (-
c0>6.85Å and
c0<6.85Å), which were also found in the case of a petroleum coke as reported previously.
2) The apparent crystallite size
Lc (00
l) of PV-7 is larger than that of the petroleum coke. This difference is explained to come from the difference in the real size of crystallite between them.
3) The relation between ε
c and -
c0 in the second stage of graphitization can be explained by the assumption that two kinds of interlayer spacing, 3.354 and 3.44Å, coexist in a packet of graphite-like layers.
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