Introduction: The Future of Carbon Materials -- The Industrial Perspective / Hubert Jager, Wilhelm Frohs, Tilo Hauke -- The Element Carbon* / Wilhelm Frohs, Hubert Jager -- History of Carbon Materials / Gerd Collin -- Recommended Terminology for the Description of Carbon as a Solid (1995 IUPAC) / E Fitzer, K-H Kchling, HP Bohm, H Marsh -- Graphite* / Otto Vohler, Ferdinand Sturm, Erhard Wege, Wilhelm Frohs -- 6.1 Introduction to Polygranular Carbon and Graphite Materials -- 6.1.1 Polygranular Carbon and Graphite Materials / Hubert Jager, Wilhelm Frohs, Ferdinand Sturm, Otto Vohler, Erhard Wege -- 6.1.2 Petroleum Coke* / Heinrich Predel, Srini Srivatsan -- Coal-Tar Pitch Coke / Tetsusei Fukuda -- Natural Graphite* / Werner Handl -- 6.1.5 Tar and Pitch* / Gerd-Peter Blmer, Gerd Collin, Hartmut Hke -- 6.1.6 Thermosetting Resins* / Josef Suren -- 6.2 Manufacturing* / Johann Daimer -- 6.3 Environmental, Health and Safety Aspects of the Production of Carbon and Graphite* / Ruediger Meyer zu Reckendorf -- 6.4 Properties of Polygranular Carbon and Graphite Materials* / Marcus Franz, Franz Fendt, Karl Wimmer -- 6.5 Applications -- 6.5.1 Prebaked Anodes for Aluminum Electrolysis / Jean-Claude Fischer, Raymond Cecil Perruchoud -- 6.5.2 Cathodes for Aluminum Electrolysis / Frank Hiltmann -- 6.5.3 Graphite Electrodes for Electric Arc Furnaces / Daniel Steppich -- 6.5.4 Linings and Casting* / Otto Vohler, Ferdinand Sturm, Erhard Wege -- 6.5.5 Carbon Electrodes* / Eckhard Escher -- 6.5.6 Self-Baking Electrodes / Johann-Christian Leye, Robert Becker -- 6.5.7 Graphite Process Equipment / Marcus Franz -- 6.5.8 Fine-Grained Graphite / Werner Richard Hoffmann -- 6.5.9 Synthetic Graphite in Nuclear Applications / Rainer Schmitt -- 6.5.10 Expanded Graphite and Graphite Foils* / Martin Christ -- 6.5.11 Other Classes of Carbon* / Otto Vohler, Ferdinand Sturm, Erhard Wege -- Carbon and Graphite for Electrochemical Power Sources* / Mario Wachtler, Oswin ttinger, Rudiger Schweiss -- Part 2. Carbon and Graphite for Catalysis / Dang Sheng Su, Wei Qi, Guodong Wen -- Activated Carbon* / Klaus-Dirk Henning, Hartmut Kienle -- Carbon Black / Conny Oswald Vogler, Manfred Voll -- Carbon Fibers / Michael Heine -- 12.1 Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers* / Klaus Drechsler, Michael Heine, Peter Mitschang -- 12.2 Carbon Fiber Reinforced Carbon* / Udo Gruber, Oswin ttinger, Walter Baur, Ludger Fischer -- 12.3 Carbon Fiber Reinforced Ceramic Composites / Bernhard Heidenreich, Andreas Kienzle -- Nanocarbons / Kazunori Fujisawa, Yoong Ahm Kim, Takuya Hayashi, Kenji Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Shuji Tsuruoka, Takashi Yanagisawa, Mauricio Terrones, Morinobu Endo.