Donald Rivin

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the surface chemistry of carbon black surfaces and apply selective neutralization techniques to further differentiate between strong and weak surface acids, showing that strong acids are aromatic carboxyl groups and weak acids are carbonic acid.

TL;DR: Carbon surface chemistry is relatively new as an independent subject of inquiry, and, judging by the volume of publications, is receiving increasing attention throughout the world as discussed by the authors, and its functional behavior has changed significantly since the pioneering publication by Studebaker in 1957.

TL;DR: The majority of the soot extracts assayed were at a much higher level of mutagenicity than any of the carbon black extracts, and even greater differences in mutagen availability would be expected if the unextracted materials were compared in vivo.

TL;DR: In this paper, four morphologically distinct forms of particulate carbon can be recognized in various types of soot: aciniform carbon (AC), composed of spheroidal carbon particles fused together in aggregates of colloidal dimensions; carbonaceous microgel (CM), in which spherolastic carbon particles are embedded in carbon or carbonaceous material; coke and char fragments; and carbon cenospheres 4.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the chemisorption of a model olefin (2-methyl-2-octene) on carbon black and found that it is highly mobile on the carbon black surface.