More than 4,000,000,000 tons of impounded waste coal are estimated to exist across coalfields in the state of Kentucky, and Researchers at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) have developed a method to turn that waste coal into valuable carbon fibers.

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover touched down at Jezero Crater, on the surface of Mars, on 18th February 2021. The Rover’s mission is to search for signs of ancient microbial life, by drilling, collecting, and storing core samples of Martian rock and soil (more…)

Carbon Blog – COVID-19 & Upcoming Events

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently unsure if the following upcoming meetings will proceed: (more…)

Carbon Blog – Carbon 2019 Conference & Associated Workshops

We are rapidly approaching the Carbon 2019 Conference & the 2 associated Satellite Workshops, as posted in our Upcoming Events Page. If you wish to register for the conference or one of workshops, please follow the links on the Upcoming Events page to submit your registration.

By registering for the conference you will automatically be accepted as a Member of The American Carbon Society, and will then be granted access to our online Membership Portal. (more…)

Carbon Blog – Call For Digital Media

We are hoping to use our updated Society website to showcase digital images and videos from our Membership.

Contributors will be fully credited for providing any content that we post. However, please note that in providing this content to the Society you are automatically granting permission for it to be used on The American Carbon Society website.

If you have interesting images of carbon & graphite products, or microstructures. Or, if you have interesting videos, or anything else that you believe would be of interest to our Membership and you would like to contribute (more…)

Carbon Blog – New Website, New Blog

Welcome to the Carbon Blog in the new American Carbon Society Website.

The website has a Public Area with updated content that is available for anyone to view.

We now also have a Membership Portal that is only open to Society Members and requires a username and password for login.

The Membership Portal contains a range of resources for our Members, including all the papers in our Conference Archive, dating back to 1995.

It is intended that the Carbon Blog will become a useful forum for our Membership to discuss current advances and topics in our field. To participate in the blog, Members will be required to login to the Membership Portal in order to read the full post content and to post any input. (more…)