Term: isotropic carbon
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.I03354

Definition:
A monolithic carbon material without preferred crystallographic orientation of the microstructure.

Note: @I03353-1@ carbon can also be a @G02687@. The isotropy can be gross (bulk), macroscopic or microscopic, depending on the structural level at which isotropy is obtained. This word is widely used today and its meaning covers all the above levels. For example, the aerospace graphites have isotropy built in by random grain orientation. Some @N04233@ are @I03353-2@ at the crystalline (sub-grain) level.

Related Terms:
1) isotropic (http://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.I03353-1).
2) isotropic (http://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.I03353-2).
3) graphite material (http://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.G02687).
4) nuclear graphites (http://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.N04233).
5) carbon material (http://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.C00841).

Source: PAC, 1995, 67, 473. 'Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)' on page 495 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199567030473)

Citation: 'isotropic carbon' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.I03354

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