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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1999
William R. Even, Jr., Livermore, CA (US);
Ronald A. Guidotti, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Other;
Abstract
Disordered carbons were synthesized at 700° C. from methacrylonitrile-divinylbenzene precursors. The disorder, even at the free surface, was confirmed with TEM. These powdered carbons were subjected to rapid surface heating by a pulsed infrared laser (59 MW pulses). While the bulk structure remained essentially unchanged, there was substantial “surface reconstruction” to a depth of 0.25 &mgr;m presumably due to ablation, re-deposition, and “recrystallization” of the surface carbon after heating by the laser. The surface ordering appears similar to the bulk microstructure of carbons isothermally annealed at 2,200° C. (i.e., turbostatic). Improvements were observed in first cycle irreversible loss, rate capability, and coulombic efficiencies of the “reconstructed” carbons, relative to the untreated carbon.