The effect of electrochemical surface treatments of carbon fibers using scanning tunneling microscopy

Jean‐Baptiste ‐B Donnet, Soo‐Jin ‐J Park, Wei‐Dong ‐D Wang

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Abstract

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been applied to the study of the topography of polyacrylonitrile (PAN)‐based carbon fibers before and after electrochemical surface treatments. The results show that the electrical anodic oxidation only changes the surface aspects; at nanometric resolution; the nanostructure and nanotexture such as the step‐like crystallite stacking are decreased with increasing electric current densities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)395-399
Number of pages5
JournalPolymers for Advanced Technologies
Volume5
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1994
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Electrochemical surface treatment
  • Nanostructure
  • Nanotexture
  • PAN‐based carbon fiber
  • Scanning tunneling microscopy

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