Abstract
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The nano-carbon materials have attracted a lot of research
interests since the discovery of C60 molecule in 1985 by
Kroto et al. (1), and the first experimental evidence of
tabular carbon structure from Iijima in 1991 (2). Current
methods used for the preparation of nano-carbon
materials, including chemical vapour deposition (CVD)
and arc vaporisation (3), are commonly characterized by
high cost and the high-pure carbonaceous precursor
gasses. In this work, the potential of using coconut shell
which is very cheap and readily available for the
production of graphitic nano-carbon three-dimensional
networks was investigated.