Number: 2000-022-1-200
Title: Characterization of carbon materials
Task Group
Chairman: H.P. Boehm
Members: F.S.
Cannon, D.D. Edie,
P. Ehrburger, W.
Hellemans, M. Inagaki,
J. Lahaye, C.A.
Leon y Leon, A. Lizzio,
B. McEnaney, I.
Mochida, J.W. Patrick,
N. Pollack, B.
Rand, and F.
Rodriguez-Reinoso
Remarks: re-initiation of project 232/1/91 - Characterization
of Carbonaceous Materials and New Carbons
Completion Date: 2006 - project abandoned
Objective:
Compilation and comparison of the various national standards for
the characterization of carbon materials and their precursors.
Description:
The various standards used for the characterization of carbon
materials and precursors by different standards organizations (ASTM,
ISO, British Stand-ards, AFNOR-France, DIN-Germany, JIS-Japan) will
be collected, compiled, and compared. The project will identify standard
procedures needing updating and areas needing new standards proce-dures.
Although largely similar, the various national standards differ in
details of the measurements etc. Such differences have often a marked
influence on the characterization data. This is often cause of disagreement
in international cooperation or commerce. A compilation of the various
standards can help to recognize the causes for diverging results.
Such a compilation has been published several years ago by W.S. Horton
in Pure Appl. Chem. 1979, 51, 1561-1574.
Updating and extension of that earlier IUPAC effort to include additional
standards and technical devel-opments during the intervening two decades
is needed.
Progress:
The first step, collection of data from the various national standards,
is completed to a great extent.
project abandoned
Last Update: 8 September 2006
<project announcement published
in Chem.
Int.
23(2) 2001>
