Title: graphitization heat treatment
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - graphitization heat treatment
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.G02692
Status: current

Definition
A process of heat treatment of a non-graphitic carbon industrially performed at temperatures in the range between \(2500\) and \(3300\ \rm{K}\), to achieve transformation into graphitic carbon.

Note
The term graphitization heat treatment does not include information as to the crystallinity achieved by the heat treatment, that is the extent of transformation into graphitic carbon or the degree of graphitization. Only for such a transformation into graphitic carbon should the term graphitization be used. Consequently: the common use of the term graphitization for the heat treatment process only, regardless of the resultant crystallinity, is incorrect and should be avoided.

Related Terms
- crystallinity: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C01433
- graphitic carbon: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02689
- graphitization: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02691
- non-graphitic carbon: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/N04193
- transformation: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/T06446

Source
- PAC, 1995, 67, 473. 'Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)' on page 493 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199567030473)

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Citation: Citation: 'graphitization heat treatment' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.G02692
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