Carbon fibres grown in an atmosphere of
hydrocarbons with the aid of fine particulate solid catalysts such as iron or other transition
metals and consisting of
graphitizable carbon.
Note:
Gas-phase-grown carbon fibres transform during
graphitization heat treatment into
graphite fibres. These show a very high degree of preferred orientation and are particularly suitable
for intercalation treatments. The term '
vapour-grown carbon fibres' alternatively used in the literature is acceptable. The use of the term
'
CVD fibres' is not recommended as an alternative for gas-phase-grown carbon fibres since the
term
'
CVD fibres' also describes fibres grown by a chemical vapour deposition
(
CVD) process on substrate fibres.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 473
(Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations
1995))
on page 490
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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