highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG)

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Highly oriented @P04964@ (HOPG) is a @P04964@ with an angular spread of the c-axes of the crystallites of less than 1 degree.
Note:
Commercial HOPG is usually produced by stress annealing at approximately \(3300\ \text{K}\).
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 473. (Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)) on page 495 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'highly oriented pyrolytic graphite' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.H02823 RIS BibTex EndNote
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