[Jesper]

Hello All 

I'm trying to sort out how I may subject a material of some kind (e.g. wood, bamboo, cotton) to a carbonisation proces so that I end up with a very, very highly conductive material that is also quite thin (thinnest 1*10-6 meters, i.e. 1mymeter, otherwise from 20 mymeters and up to 3 millimeters).

Any of you know have suggestions as to how this may be done in a "kitchen table" way, i.e. using natural materials and not highly advanced equipment?

Greetings,

Jesper

[eugenedakin]

Hi Jesper,

Can I ask what your final solution is? What are you trying to accomplish by having material conductive? Is this material to be used as a lightening rod?

Thanks for your help,

Eugene

[csrscience.com]

Good luck with this project!

in order to make carbon highly conductive you'll have to get it into a glassy carbon, graphite or diamond form..

This is not an easy task any any means..

What sort of strength/structure does it need?

IIRC you can at a very high temperature deposit small diamonds on a surface by the pyrolysis of ethanol. I doubt this is easy - you may have better luck using something besides carbon.. such as a conductive metal oxide if you are needing it to be fairly inert.