Microwave determination of sp2 carbon fraction in nanodiamond powders

Cuenca, Jerome A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1370-1167, Thomas, Evan L. H., Mandal, Soumen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8912-1439, Williams, Oliver Aneurin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7210-3004 and Porch, Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5293-8883 2015. Microwave determination of sp2 carbon fraction in nanodiamond powders. Carbon 81 , pp. 174-178. 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.09.046

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Abstract

We measured the bulk effective complex permittivities of various nanodiamond powders, of different average particle sizes (in the range from about 10 nm to 1 μm) using a microwave cavity perturbation technique at 2.49 and 5.72 GHz. We observed an increased permittivity with decreasing particle size, both in terms of the polarisation and microwave loss. In separate experiments we used Raman Spectroscopy to determine the amount of surface sp2 carbon present in the same samples. We also used X-Ray Diffraction to estimate the crystallite size and to determine the chemical compositions, whilst we measured overall particle size using Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy. We interpret the increased permittivity in the smaller particles as being due to larger volume fraction of sp2 hybridised carbon material, and verify this by comparison with a simple model that predicts that the amount of microwave absorption for fixed powder volume should be inversely proportional to the average particle size. Hence, we conclude that the microwave method is a fast, accurate and non-invasive way of estimating the relative proportion of sp2 carbon in nanodiamond samples.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy Engineering
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0008-6223
Date of Acceptance:	16 September 2014
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2024 02:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/67158

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