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1. Sealing material: the raw material high carbon graphite is mixed with concentrated sulfuric acid and nitric acid for acidification treatment, heat treatment and then pressed into shape. The prepared flexible graphite is a new high-performance sealing material and a nano material grown in situ. Compared with traditional sealing materials such as asbestos rubber, it has good Compressibility, resilience, self-adhesion, low density and other excellent properties, and can be used at high temperature It has been used for a long time under harsh working conditions such as high corrosion. Graphite plates and sealing elements made of it are widely used in aerospace, machinery, electronics, nuclear energy, petrochemical, electric power, shipbuilding, smelting and other industries. Because of its excellent characteristics such as light weight, conductivity, heat conduction, high temperature resistance, acid and alkali corrosion resistance, good resilience, lubrication, plasticity and chemical stability, it is known as the "king of seals" in the world.
2. Environmental protection field: The expandable graphite obtained by high-temperature expansion has rich pore structure, thus having excellent adsorption performance, and has a wide range of applications in environmental protection and biomedicine. There are two types of pore structures in expandable graphite: open pores and closed pores. The pore volume accounts for about 98%, and is mainly composed of large pores, with a pore size distribution range of 1-10 3 nm, as it is mainly composed of macropores and mesopores, differs from microporous materials such as activated carbon in terms of adsorption characteristics. It is suitable for liquid phase adsorption rather than gas phase adsorption. In liquid phase adsorption, it is lipophilic and hydrophobic. 1 g of expandable graphite can adsorb over 80 g of heavy oil, making it a promising environmentally friendly material for removing oil pollution from water surfaces. Microbial (bacterial) treatment is often used in the treatment of wastewater in chemical enterprises. Expandable graphite is a good microbial carrier, especially in the treatment of water contaminated by organic macromolecules such as oils. Due to its good chemical stability and renewable reuse, it has good application prospects.
3. Medicine: Due to its adsorption properties for organic and biological macromolecules, expandable graphite has broad application prospects in biomedical materials.
4. High energy battery material: As a battery material, expandable graphite is converted into electric energy by using the free energy change of the interlayer reaction of expandable graphite. Generally, expandable graphite is used as cathode, lithium is used as anode, or expandable graphite composite Silver oxide is used as cathode, and zinc is used as anode. Expandable graphite with metal halides such as fluorinated graphite, graphite acid, and AuCl3 and TiF4 has been applied to batteries.