Patent ID: 8685359

Claim:
A method for producing an atomic carbon material comprising: a first step of injecting inert gas into an airtight chamber containing a raw material composed of an organic material which has covalent bonds and replacing the atmosphere in the chamber with a nitrogen atmosphere; a second step of heating the raw material in the chamber to a temperature between 100-150Â° C. and controlling said temperature of 100-150Â° C. for a period of time sufficient to substantially complete evaporation of the water content from the raw material and complete extraction and removal of the evaporated water (water vapor) of the raw material out of the chamber to provide a fully dried raw material, a third step of injecting an amount of inactive gas equal to the amount of gas removed in the second step to keep the inside of the chamber in a state of an airtight nitrogen atmosphere; a fourth step of heating the fully dried raw material while step by step increasing from the temperature of 100-150Â° C. up to a temperature of 350 and not to exceed 450Â° C., to provide raw carbon, and individually separating resultant elements except for carbon in the oxygen-free atmosphere and the organic material from being bonded with carbon by thermally decomposing in order from an element having a lower decomposition temperature at a temperature of 450Â° C. or lower and exhausting the elements each time of separation to outside of the nitrogen atmosphere under a condition where the nitrogen atmosphere is maintained; a fifth step of injecting the nitrogen gas in the same amount as that of the exhausted elements to keep the inside of the chamber air tight and containing a nitrogen atmosphere; and sealing the obtained bulk atomic carbon in a predetermined chamber under a condition where the nitrogen atmosphere is maintained.