Characterizations of Carbon Nanospheres Synthesized Using Activated Carbons And Palm Oil

Abstract

Carbon nanospheres (CNSs) are formed from the pairing of pentagonal and heptagonal carbon rings. This novel carbon structure has only now started to attract significant research activity. In its spherical arrangement, the graphite sheets are not forming a closed shell but rather waving flakes that follow the curvature of the sphere, creating many open edges at the surface. The formation processes of CNSs can be conducted through many ways, resulting in different shapes sizes, morphologies of CNSs. The chosen processes and used raw materials then influence the properties of CNSs . In this work we report the synthesis of CNSs using thermal pyrolysis method with the condition of the presence of nitrogen carrier gas using activated carbons and palm oil as carbon precursors. The ratio between activated carbons and palm oil was selected as the main process parameters to obtain CNSs.