... Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26502, USA Alfred H. Stiller, Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia ... Jyh-Ming Ting, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung Universiv, Tainan, Taiwan Roger S. Williams, Westvaco Corporation, Washington Street, Covington, Virginia ... graphite is used in large quantities by the steel industry as arc electrodes in remelting furnaces, for metal casting molds by the foundry industry, and in the semi-conductor industry for...