ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the terminology of the carbon black industry, and the methods used to measure these properties. It explores the fundamental properties of carbon black and discusses the techniques employed to measure. The chapter reviews the various morphological configurations. Carbon black in its various forms is used in numerous industries. Specifically Transmission Electron Microscopy methods will be discussed in some detail as these have the potential to be of most use to the carbon blackmodeller. In the plastics and coatings industry it is utilised as a pigment, UV stabiliser and to impart conductivity. Carbon black is a colloidal form of elemental carbon produced by the partial combustion or thermal decomposition of a hydrocarbon feedstock. An additional parameter of use for carbon black modelling is the form or shape of the aggregates. Aggregate shape descriptors give an indication as to the level of branching, or structure, occurring within a carbon black aggregate.
