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Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles:
Number 189
Activated Carbon Fiber
and Textiles
Edited by
Jonathan Y. Chen
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Contributors
T.D. BurchellOak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
J.Y. Chen The Universityof Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
C.I.Contescu Oak Ridge National Laboratory,Oak Ridge, TN, United States
J. Economy UniversityofIllinoisat Urbana-Champaign,Urbana, IL,United States
N.C. GallegoOak Ridge National Laboratory,Oak Ridge, TN, United States
S. GiraudetE(cid:1)cole Nationale Sup(cid:1)erieure de Chimie de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6226
Institut desSciences Chimiquesde Rennes, Rennes, France
H.A. Grappe RMX Technologies, Knoxville, TN, UnitedStates
A. Hassani Atat€urkUniversity, Erzurum,Turkey
Y. HuangBeijing ForestryUniversity, Beijing,China
A. Javaid Universityof Engineering& Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
G. Jiang Jiangnan University,Wuxi, China
V. Jim(cid:1)enez Exide TechnologiesSAU,Manzanares, Spain
A.R. Khataee Universityof Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
P.LeCloirecE(cid:1)coleNationaleSup(cid:1)erieuredeChimiedeRennes,UMRCNRS6226
Institut desSciences Chimiquesde Rennes, Rennes, France
Q.W. LiSuzhou Instituteof Nano-Tech andNano-Bionics, Suzhou, China
Y. LiMinjiangUniversity, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
A. Romero University ofCastilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
D. Saha Widener University, Chester, PA,UnitedStates
x Contributors
P. Sa´nchez University ofCastilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Y. Shen Jiangnan University,Wuxi;Nantong University,Nantong, China
Z. Yue The UniversityofTennessee Space Institute,Tullahoma, TN, United States
X.H.Zhang Suzhou Institute ofNano-Techand Nano-Bionics, Suzhou, China
M. Zhang Minjiang University,Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Preface
Activatedcarbonmaterialsaretraditionalchemicaladsorbentsbecauseoftheirvery
highspecificsurfaceareaandhighmicroporevolume.Recently,agreatdealofindus-
trialattentionhasbeendrawntoactivatedcarbonfiberandtextiles.Textilematerials
intheformoffibers,yarns,andfabricscanbeconvertedintoactivecarbonproducts
bytheprocessofpyrolysisandactivation.Therefore,activatedcarbonfibermaterials
havegreatpotentialfornewindustrialenduses,frompersonalprotectiveequipmentto
energystorage and healthcare devices.
Using fibers and fabrics as raw materials for making activated carbon products
exhibitstremendousadvantages.First,activatedcarbonfiberhasasignificantlydif-
ferent microporous structure that allows much more rapid dynamic adsorption and
desorptionwithlessmaterial.Second,arangeofpolymerscanbeusedasprecursors
formakingactivatedcarbonproducts,includingcelluloses,thermosets,andthermo-
plastics.Finally,fiberassembliescanhavediversestructuressuchaswovens,knits,
andnonwovens.Thesematerialformatsareeasytointegrateintocompositestructures
and allow easy material handling and transportation inmanufacturing.
However,thetechnologiesforfabricating,characterizing,andanalyzingactivated
carbon fiber and fabrics are usually not included in traditional textile textbooks,
because the production of activated carbon fiber and textiles is a cutting-edge tech-
nologyoverlappedbyfiber/textilemanufacturingandpolymerthermochemicalpro-
cesses. Professionals working in this industry need to have a broader scope of
knowledge that is beyond the single traditional textile discipline. This motivated
me to edit a book that could address this emergent technical area. My proposal for
this book, titled Activated Carbon Fiber and Textiles, was immediately supported
by Sarah Lynch,Acquisitions Editorfor Elsevier Woodhead Publishing.
Thepurposeofthisbookistoprovidereaderswiththelatestresearchprogressand
state-of-the-art technologies developed in the manufacture and application of acti-
vatedcarbonfiberandtextiles.Thebookisdividedintothreesections.SectionAlays
the fundamentals of carbonized and activated carbon materials. The basic contents
coveredinthissectionincludeanoverviewandtechnicalconceptsofactivatedcarbon
fiber incomparison with granularactivatedcarbon;precursormaterialsofactivated
carbon fiber; precursor fiber spinning; and the thermochemical process of activated
carbonfiber.SectionBcoversthepropertiesofactivatedcarbonfibers,includingtheir
adsorptive properties, mechanical properties, electrical and thermal properties, and
acousticalproperties.SectionCintroducesthemajorapplicationsofactivatedcarbon
fiber infiltration, environmental protection, power storage,and gasstorage.
Iwanttoexpressmywholeheartedthankstoallchapterauthorsfortheircontribu-
tions to this book. Their enthusiasm and willingness to share their knowledge is
xii Preface
greatlyappreciated.Iwouldalsoliketoextendmygratitudetotheprojectmanagers,
editors,andallotherassistantswhohelpedtoproducethisbook.Withouttheirinvalu-
able input,the publication of thisbook would have been impossible.
JonathanY.Chen
July 4, 2016
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