The intercalation reactions in CuCl
2-FeCl
3 system were studied by gravimetric analysis, X-ray powder diffractometry and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). The reactions between graphite and a mixture of CuCl
2 and FeCl
3, between CuCl
2-GIC's and FeCl
3, and also between FeCl
3-GIC's and CuCl
2 were examined at 300 and 550°C.At 300°C, where the de-intercalation of CuCl
2 or FeCl
3 from their GIC's in a sealed tube was negligibly small, it was found that FeCl
3 is intercalated into vacant graphite galleries and also exchanged with CuCl
2 existing in graphite interlayer spaces, while CuCl
2 can be merely exchanged with FeCl
3 in graphite interlayer spaces. At 550°C, however, the de-intercalation of the intercalates, the intercalation of CuCl
2 or FeCl
3 into the vacant graphite galleries and the exchange reaction between FeCl
3 and CuCl
2 proceeded simultaneously. The formation of a molten salt in the CuCl
2-FeCl
3 system was observed, which seemed to lower the reactivities of CuCl
2 and FeCl
3 to graphite. The results of the line analysis by EDS showed that CuCl
2 and FeCl
3 intercalated seemed to coexist in separated domains. From the present results, the following four processes seemed to affect the formation of the ternary GIC's (Fig. 2); (1) exchange reaction between intercalates and reagents, (2) intercalation of reagents into vacant graphite galleries, (3) de-intercalation reaction from the starting GIC's and (4) formation of molten salt which seemed to lower the reactivities of metal chlorides.
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