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).
