Advances in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRPs)
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2025 | Viewed by 368
Special Issue Editors
Interests: manufacturing process engineering
Interests: mechanical engineering
Interests: 3D print
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Dear Colleagues,
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) have become advanced composite materials due to their exceptional strength-to-weight ratio, corrosion resistance, and outstanding mechanical performance. In this context, recent advances focus on optimizing manufacturing processes, such as automated fiber placement, and improving matrix materials to enhance their thermal and structural properties. Additionally, innovations in recycling technologies address the environmental impact of CFRPs, fostering sustainability and improving their lifecycle.
Although the most common applications today are in the aerospace, automotive, and renewable energy sectors, where their versatility and growing demand have been demonstrated, there are other sectors in which CFRP can be used in many different ways, such as in medical technology, robotics, automation technology, measurement technology, and optics, as well as in the sports and leisure sector.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the main advances in material development, processing techniques, manufacturing processes and applications, providing a comprehensive overview of CFRP innovation and future prospects.
The main topics are:
- Innovative manufacturing processes for CFRPs;
- Additive manufacturing of CFRPs—challenges and opportunities;
- Thermal and structural enhancements in CFRPs—advances in matrix materials;
- Sustainability in CFRPs—innovations in recycling technologies;
- CFRPs in aerospace applications—meeting modern challenges;
- Automotive applications of CFRPs—lightweight solutions for next-gen vehicles;
- CFRPs in renewable energy—enhancing wind turbine blade design;
- Nano-enhanced CFRPs—the role of nanomaterials for mechanical and thermal properties;
- FEM analysis—advances in mechanical behavior for CFRPs;
- Applications of CFRPs in the field of medicine and sport;
- Advanced detection for mechanical vibration and fault diagnosis;
- New areas of application for CFRPs.
Prof. Dr. Miguel Álvarez Alcón
Prof. Dr. Fernández Zacarías Francisco
Prof. Dr. Pedro Francisco Mayuet Ares
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs)
- manufacturing processes
- material development
- renewable energy applications
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