Thermal analysis and other techniques were employed to characterize two expandable graphite samples. The expansion onset temperatures of the expandable graphite’s were ca. 220 °C and 300 °C respectively. The key finding ...

Additive manufacturing (3D printing), combined with computer aided design, is transforming the modern manufacturing industry. Using high temperature techniques such as “selective laser sintering”, fabricators are given ...

The oxidation, in a neat oxygen atmosphere, of high-purity and highly crystalline natural graphite and synthetic Kish graphite was investigated. The physico-geometric model function of the kinetic rate equation was ...

The estimation of the active surface area (ASA) of various macrocrystalline graphitic materials is industrially valuable but the microstructures of these materials are still contestable. This in turn has led to difficulties ...

Rapid thermal conductivity measurement of porous solids and composites remains a challenge. A modified steady state technique has been proposed which uses two heat flux sensors instead of one. The parameter estimation ...

The characterization of thermal properties continues to be a challenge facing the development of composite phase change materials. To overcome the practical issues of current techniques a new experimental method was ...