Microstructure-Dependent Functional Properties Assessments of Carbon Materials Extracted from the Carbon-Rods of Commercial Dry-Cell Primary Battery

In the carbon research, the spectroscopic investigations of the microstructural features & functional domains of the wide range carbons always become the frontline means for identifying their generic qualifications and applicative instincts. The continual attentions gained by them and their instrumental assessments of the structure-dependent attributes are mainly due to possessing highly heat-sensitive restructuring C-networks & transformative graphitic phase integrities. The same features lead to derive and extract the variably functional yet promisingly useable derivatives of them under the reasonably low costs and practical efforts. In this periphery, the global seeking for the predominant precursors of such type carbon materials is prevalently practiced mainly for resolving their sustainable resources scarcity. The central conductive C-rods of the commercially famed C-Zn primary battery packs released into the environment as waste battery after heavy discharging could be one of the best alternative prototype materials for them. In this research, we thoroughly examine the generic microstructural qualifications and functional domains of the carbons extracted from the C-rods of the waste C-Zn batteries (D, 1.5V, Maxell & Eveready brands) through the XRD method & its typical crystallite profiles interlinked mathematical subordinates, and assess their graphitization extents, retransformation & restructuring propensities, internal metamorphoses level, BET adsorption area, specific capacitance, etc. Alongside, the recycling, retransforming, and reusing possibilities of them are assessed. In order to take into account of all these structural assets, and to speculate their originally endorsed characteristic features retaining propensities upon heavy discharging of the battery packs, we refer the specific spectral analyses carried out to the 100% charged state battery rods-carbons. We observe that none of the XRD-descriptors deterministic to the functional properties of the waste battery derived carbons are notably worse than that determined for the non-waste battery carbons and many other biomasses & natural/non-natural graphites precursor carbon derivatives. These semiquantitative judgements implicate that the waste C-Zn battery rods-carbons are of good quality type exhibiting utmost requirements set for the exclusive functionalization of the carbonaceous materials industrially. We believe that they attract more scientific attentions in the days to come so that the natural C-masses can be sustained, & the environmental hazards caused by the direct disposals of the waste batteries are mitigated.