The often used synonyms '
glassy carbon' and '
vitreous carbon' have been introduced as trademarks and should not be used as terms. From a scientific
viewpoint, all synonymous terms suggest a similiarity with the structure of silicate
glasses which does not exist in glass-like carbon, except for the pseudo-glassy appearance
of the surface. Glass-like carbon cannot be described as
amorphous carbon because it consists of two-dimensional structural elements and does not exhibit '
dangling' bonds.