A Simple Way to Obtain Glassy Polymeric Carbon and Its Use as Electrode for Analytical Purposes

The present work describes the production of glassy polymeric carbon from phenol formaldehyde resins by using different heating rates for each step of pyrolysis. The final product is a suitable material that can be used as electrode for monitoring charge transfer reactions or as supporting electrode for electroactive polymers. The obtained material was characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy and the electrochemical properties were investigated by cyclic voltammetric technique.