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Growth of cone-shaped carbon material inside the cell lumen by heat treatment of wood charcoal

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With treatment at 2500°C, wood cell walls partially transform into a turbostratic carbon structure, which has an X-ray diffraction peak corresponding to a layer plane spacing of 0.343 nm. Despite this change, there was no apparent change within the cell wall seen by SEM.

Cone-shaped carbon material was formed inside the cell lumen after treatment at 2500°C. This is not a feature originating from any wood cell organism and seems to result from vaporized carbon or pyrolysis gases that originate within the cell wall.

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  1. Graduate School of Agricultural Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8657, Tokyo, Japan

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Saito, Y., Arima, T. Growth of cone-shaped carbon material inside the cell lumen by heat treatment of wood charcoal. J Wood Sci 48, 451–454 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00770709

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