The University of Limerick and global consortium partners have discovered that carbon fiber can be produced via an ...

Advanced carbon fiber materials could be used in applications from wind turbine blades to biomedical implants following the ...

Carbon fiber is a super-strong, lightweight material used in everything from airplanes and wind turbines to sports equipment ...

Schematic representation of carbon fiber preparation from polyacrylonitrile. The turbostratic structure of PAN CF contrasts with the mesophase pitch CFs, which form strongly directional (sheet ...

“Crude oil is a resource with immense potential beyond fuels,” says Edwin Guevara Romero, a researcher in the labs of Mani Sarathy, who led the work. “Using oil residues as feedstocks for carbon ...

A research team has developed a groundbreaking new method of producing carbon fiber while drastically reducing ... conversion of Polyacrylonitrile (PAN), a key component in carbon fibre production ...

Researcher Richard Olsson, seen here in the lab holding two sources of graphene, a spool of carbon fiber and a piece of ... derived from polyacrylonitrile (PAN), a widely available polymer that ...