Laboratory of carbon materials

Research directions

• Nanomaterials: carbon nanotubes, graphenes, graphene oxides
  
• Electrospun polymeric nanofibers
  
• Materials with potential for use in electromagnetic compatibility applications
  
• New or improved materials for components and devices for generating,storage and conversion of electricity (electroactive graphene based materials, supercapacitor specific electrolytes, conductive transparent thin films for photovoltaic applications)
  
• Carbonic nanomaterials obtained by electrodynamic methods (electrical explozion /arc discharge of graphite rods)
  
• Carbon fibers and composite materials reinforced with carbon fibers (CFRP) with special functionalities
  
• Thin absorbent / reflecting layers for electromagnetic waves
  
• Nanocomposite materials for tactile / tensorestive sensors
  

Services

Test benches, laboratory technological facilities

• Determination of physical properties of brush materials for electric machines according to SR CEI 60413: 1997.

Characterization and data interpretation

• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), high resolution transmission microscopy (HRTEM) and optical microscopy;
• grain size, proportion and phase distribution, porosity, layer thickness;
• identification of crystalline phases, determination of elemental cell parameters and crystallite size from X-ray diffraction spectra;
• determining the electrical resistance of a filament in a carbon fiber toron by the four point probe method;
• determining the specific surface area and volume of micropores using the BET method.

Products

• Carbon materials with high resistancet at thermo-mechanical shock
• Electric brushes
• Brazing carbon electrodes

Tehnologies

• Synthetic carbon materials: electrographite, hard carbon, metal-graphite, bachellite-graphite
• Carbon fiber reinfroced composites(CFRP)

Laboratory infrastructure

Research for new materials development:

• Carbon nanotubes nanowires and graphene growth equipment
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• CVD deposition system for flexible organic systems
  
• Nanofibers electrospinning machine
  
• Carbon fiber Laboratory equipment
  

Processing of synthetic synthetic carbon materials

• Equipment for impregnation with pitch of synthetic carbon materials (capacity max. 50 kg carbonic material, impregnation temperature max. 280oC);
• Carbonization ovens for carbonic materials (capacitay max. 50 kg carbonic material , temperature max. 900oC);
• Mills for grinding novolac, pitch, carbonic materials;
• Blender (capacity max. 40 kg carbonic material, temperature max. 1600C).