Condensational enlargement of carbon agglomerates

Abstract

The condensational enlargement of soot agglomerates with organic materials was investigated. Soot-like agglomerates in the size range of 30-120nm were generated by spark discharging which is controlled by some variables such as carbon electrode distance, spark repetition frequency and carrier gas flow rate. The result shows that condensation of organic materials on the ultrafine carbon agglomerates can bring them to a submicron and more size range.