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Fabrication of Iron-Containing Carbon Materials From Graphite FluorideCarbon materials containing iron alloy, iron metal, iron oxide or iron halide were fabricated. Typical samples of these metals were estimated to contain 1 iron atom per 3.5 to 5 carbon atoms. Those carbon materials containing iron alloy, iron metal, and/or Fe3O4 were magnetic. The kinetics of the fabrication process were studied by exposing graphite fluoride (CF(0.68)) to FeCl3 over a 280 to 420 C temperature range. Between 280 and 295 C, FeCl3 quickly entered the structure of CF(0.68), broke the carbon-fluorine bonds, and within 10 to 30 min, completely converted it to carbon made up of graphite planes between which particles of crystalline FeF3 and noncrystalline FeCl3 were located. Longer reaction times (e.g., 28 hr) or higher reaction temperatures (e.g., 420 C) produced materials containing graphite, a FeCl3-graphite intercalation compound, FeCl2(center dot)4H2O, and FeCl2(center dot)2H2O. These products were further heat treated to produce iron-containing carbon materials. When the heating temperature was kept in the 750 to 850 C range, and the oxygen supply was kept at the optimum level, the iron halides in the carbon structure were converted to iron oxides. Raising the heat to temperatures higher than 900 C reduced such iron oxides to iron metal. The kinetics of these reactions were used to suggest processes for fabricating carbon materials containing iron alloy. Such processes were then tested experimentally. In one of the successful trial runs, commercially purchased CF(0.7) powder was used as the reactant, and NiO was added during the final heating to 1200 C as a source of both nickel and oxygen. The product thus obtained was magnetic and was confirmed to be a nickel-iron alloy in carbon.
Document ID
19960020478
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Hung, Ching-cheh
(NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland,OH United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 1996
Subject Category
Chemistry And Materials (General)
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.15:107133
E-10063
NASA-TM-107133
Meeting Information
Meeting: 22nd Biennial Conference on Carbon
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: July 16, 1995
End Date: July 21, 1995
Accession Number
96N24050
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 233-1A-1E
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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