Mesocarbon microbeads (MCMBs) are a kind of engineering and functional artificial carbon materials generally prepared by the polymerization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The physicochemical property of the raw materials plays a key role in the quality of MCMBs. For a detailed analysis of the synergistic effects of the generation of MCMBs, a high-temperature coal tar pitch was used as raw materials, and coal pyrolytic extracts were used as additive to synthesize the MCMBs. The microstructure and morphology of the derived MCMBs were determined by an optical microscope, scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectrum, and laser particle size analyzer. In fact, the addition of the coal pyrolytic extracts can adjust the molecular structure of the blending pitch, and the coal pyrolytic extracts can promote the generation of the MCMBs during the co-polycondensation process. The MCMBs obtained by co-polycondensation method have a good degree of sphericity, lower defects in the surface morphology, and a lower charge transfer resistance (Rct) of 4.677 Ω.
Coal pitch was recognized as an important raw material to produce artificial carbon/graphite materials. The pyrolytic process was the essential process during the production of artificial carbon/graphite materials, and the pyrolytic behaviors of coal pitch acted a key role on the quality of derived carbon materials. In order to detailed study on the pyrolytic behaviors of coal pitch, four kinds of coal pitches named as medium coal tar pitch (MP, a kind of high‐temperature coal pitch), medium‐low temperature coal pitch (MLP), coal direct liquefaction pitch (CLP), and coal pyrolytic extraction (CPE) were used as raw materials, and FTIR, TG/DTG‐FTIR combined with curve‐fitted method have been used to determine the pyrolysis characteristics of coal pitches. The microstructure of pyrolysis products from different coal pitches has been analyzed by optical microscope, X‐ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectrum, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and N2‐adsorption and desorption (BET method), respectively. What's more, the micro‐strength and resistance of pyrolytic products have been also investigated in this study. In fact, the CLP has the highest aromaticity, and the content of graphite carbon microcrystalline (IG/IAll), the size of carbon microcrystalline (Lc), the specific area (SBET), the micro‐strength, and resistance of its' pyrolytic products were 13.22%, 1.94 nm, 2.909 m2/g, 65%, and 5.22 Ω, respectively. In other words, the molecular structure of coal pitch has key effects on the pyrolysis characteristics of coal pitch, and the aromaticity of coal pitch also has an significant influence on the carbon crystalline, micro‐strength, and resistance of pyrolytic products. The higher aromaticity of coal pitch always meant for the higher content of graphite carbon crystalline and a lower resistance.
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