Carbon Fibers from Sustainable Precursors
A special issue of Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 24984
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Dear Colleagues,
The large-scale industry of carbon fiber has evolved in recent years in more and more fields, such as aerospace, military, medical, automobile, supporting goods and so on. This huge interest arises from their extraordinary properties like, good mechanical strength, good electrical and thermal conductivities, great chemical stability, etc. In recent years, the use of these fibers has become increasingly attractive in the energy field as they are raw materials for the production of windmill blades, for the storage of natural gas and fuel cells for transport. Nowadays, the main source of these fibers production is represented by the electrospinning process of polyacrylonitrile (PAN). With this in mind, it will be very interesting to direct fiber production to sustainable precursors. The most widespread renewable resource in the world is the biomass. Consequently, there are considerable volumes of sustainable biomass (meaning low costs production) which can lead to the obtaining of carbon fiber.
Dr. Andrei Radu Dorin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Carbon fibers
- Sustainable precursors
- Biomass
- Carbonization
- Applications
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