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Project: Characterization of Carbonaceous Materials and New Carbons

Number: 232/1/91
Start: 01 January 1991
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Objective

National standards for the characterization of carbon materials such as A.S.T.M., D.I.N., I.S.O. etc. differ in important parameters (e.g. sample size, particle size, temperature, ...). In some cases these differences affect the results because specific requirements for carbonaceous materials have not been considered. Many of the national standards for the characterization of carbon materials compiled in an earlier Commission paper by W.S. Horton in PAC 51, 1561 (1979) are outdated. The objective of the project is to collect the actual relevant national standards, to point out differences, and to seek for each characterization method an expert's comment on the effect such differences may have on measurements with samples encountered in industrial and research laboratories.

Progress
The Subcommittee has met, refined its definition of the task, and solicited input for its report. The report will compile and update descriptions and recommendations for methods used to characterize carbon.
See progress report in the Minutes of the Commission Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 12-13 June 1998 - Chem. Int. 21(2), 54-57 (1999)

Project re-initiated in 2000 as #2000-022-1-200