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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 25.
Published in final edited form as: Combust Flame. 2016 May;167:218–227. doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2016.02.010

Table 2.

Screening explosion parameters for carbonaceous nanomaterials (this study).

Allotrope Material A σA Pm(500) dP/dt|m(500) K(500)
[m2/g] [m2/g] [bar] [bar/s] [bar-m/s]
diamond 1 µ 7.5 0.0 6.3 320 87
10 nm 268.9 1.2 5.8 430 117
fullerene C60 0.4 0.0 6.6 373 101
SWCNT CheapTubes 372.0 3.1 6.8 290 79
UnidymHiPCO 559.9 8.4 6.4 382 104
SWeNT SG-65 617.2 3.0 6.5 198 54
MWCNT BayTubes C150P 200.2 0.9 5.8 155 42
BayTubes C150HP 191.9 1.0 6.0 120 33
Mitsui 7 23.0 0.5 4.3 19 5
CheapTubes A 111.1 0.6 5.9 210 57
CheapTubes B 68.7 0.7 5.6 156 42
CNF (Pyrograf) PR-19-XT-PS 28.2 0.4 5.0 47 13
PR-19-XT-LHT 22.2 0.1 4.8 33 9
PR-19-XT-HHT 18.9 0.3 4.0 16 4
PR-24-XT-PS 57.3 0.5 5.1 53 14
PR-24-XT-LHT 36.8 0.3 5.4 56 15
PR-24-XT-HHT 33.3 0.5 0.4 0 0
carbon black (Cabot) Regal 330R 83.0 0.3 5.9 180 49
Monarch 120 29.9 0.1 5.9 144 39
Monarch 280 40.6 0.2 6.2 188 51
Monarch 900 239.2 0.9 5.9 223 61
Sterling V 36.8 0.1 5.6 142 39
carbon black (DeGussa-Huels) Printex 90 306.3 4.5 4.9 103 28
graphene (Angstron) N008-100N 11.6 0.1 5.5 168 46
graphite (Alfa Aesar) crystalline (300 mesh) 11.6 0.1 4.7 72 19
flake (7–10 µ) 8.4 0.1 5.0 87 23
synth. cond. (325 mesh) 3.3 0.1 4.6 57 16
natural crystal (2–15 µ) 6.5 0.1 4.6 98 27