V. Carlier et al., REACTIVITY BETWEEN CARBON-FIBERS AND ANHYDRIDE - A STUDY BY RADIOCHEMICAL TITRATION AND TOF-SIMS ANALYSIS, Carbon (New York), 36(7-8), 1998, pp. 921-927
This paper deals with the radiochemical titration of carbon fibres (ex
-PAN AS4 from Hercules) with C-14 labelled succinic anhydride in view
of quantifying the reactivity between anhydride groups and the functio
nalities (amine, hydroxyl, etc.) of C fibres. A transesterification re
action due to the chemical labelling procedure is observed and is conf
irmed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) ana
lyses. It is finally used for discriminating between the reactivity of
anhydride towards amino groups and other fibre functionalities. (C) 1
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