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Conoco Targets "Industrial" Markets for New Low-Cost Carbon Fiber -- Part 2 of 3.(Brief Article)
Advanced Materials & Composites News, February, 2000
This pitch-based carbon fiber (PBCF) allows for tailoring of the fiber modulus more readily than can be done with PAN-based carbon fibers. We are told that tensile strength is likely to fall in the 250 to 350-ksi range. Modulus can be tailored roughly from 35 to 120 million (msi), and this is the area of greatest interest to Conoco and its potential customers.
The highest modulus product are not very ductile, so "conductivity" is a key application area of interest. Applications requiring a controlled coefficient-of thermal expansion (CTE) and coefficient of friction (COF) for brakes on trucks and rail rolling stock are likely targets as well. Automobile applications in structures, electrostatic painting, and the powertrain are a focal area, too. Batteries and...
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