Studies on Copper – Activated Carbon (CWZ14) Metallurgical Synthesis with the Use of Continuous Casting Method

Abstract:

Various allotropic forms of carbon like carbon nanotubes (CNT’s) can have high mechanical, thermal and electrical properties. Because of this phenomena research results are being conducted worldwide on their possible use in electro-technical and electrical industry, for heat removal applications and in the fields of widely understood mechanical industry. Development method of high quality CNT’s is complex and can be long lasting. Because of those difficulties the production cost is very high and price of obtained CNT’s can reach thousands of euros. High cost of pure CNT’s and graphene is a direct reason for numbers of studies, also conducted in this article, on the synthesis of copper and other forms of carbon like i.e. activated carbon. Authors of this article state that also with the use of activated carbon one can achieve increase of copper mechanical, electrical, and technological properties. In this paper research results on copper and activated carbon (CWZ14) synthesis method are presented along with the research results of electrical, mechanical, rheological and micro-structural properties for obtained composites.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 641)
• Pages: 81-87
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.641.81
• Online since: April 2015
• Authors: Paweł Kwaśniewski, Grzegorz Kiesiewicz*, Tadeusz Knych, Andrzej Mamala, Artur Kawecki, B. Smyrak, Wojciech Ściężor, Kinga Korzeń, Eliza Sieja-Smaga
• Keywords: Carbon, Composite, Continuous Casting, Copper

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