Ultrasonic treatment of glassy carbon for nanoparticle preparation.

Abstract Glassy carbon particles (millimetric or micrometric sizes) dispersions in water were treated by ultrasound at 20 kHz, either in a cylindrical reactor, or in a “Rosette” type reactor, for various time lengths ranging from 3 h to 10 h. Further separations sedimentation allowed obtaining few nanoparticles of glassy carbon in the supernatant (diameter