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Fabrication of Macro-porous Carbon Foams from Spherical Phenolic Resin Powder and Furfuryl Alcohol by Casting Molding
Hyeondeok Jeong, Seiki Kim
J Korean Powder Metall Inst. 2019;26(6):502-507.   Published online December 1, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4150/KPMI.2019.26.6.502
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Macro-porous carbon foams are fabricated using cured spherical phenolic resin particles as a matrix and furfuryl alcohol as a binder through a simple casting molding. Different sizes of the phenolic resin particles from 100–450 μm are used to control the pore size and structure. Ethylene glycol is additionally added as a pore-forming agent and oxalic acid is used as an initiator for polymerization of furfuryl alcohol. The polymerization is performed in two steps; at 80°C and 200°C in an ambient atmosphere. The carbonization of the cured body is performed under Nitrogen gas flow (0.8 L/min) at 800°C for 1 h. Shrinkage rate and residual carbon content are measured by size and weight change after carbonization. The pore structures are observed by both electron and optical microscope and compared with the porosity results achieved by the Archimedes method. The porosity is similar regardless of the size of the phenolic resin particles. On the other hand, the pore size increases in proportion to the phenol resin size, which indicates that the pore structure can be controlled by changing the raw material particle size.


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