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DOE Funds Virginia Tech and Clemson for Low-Cost Carbon Fiber Development.(Department of Energy)(Brief Article)

Advanced Materials & Composites News, February, 2000

Virginia Tech and Clemson University are the beneficiaries of an award of $1.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the development of low-cost carbon fiber for use in the manufacturing of light-weight automotive parts.

The program is a joint program of the Materials Institute, Center for Composite Materials and Structures, and Polymer Materials and Interfaces Laboratory at Virginia Tech, and the Center for Fiber and Film at Clemson. Don Baird and Garth Wilkes, professors of chemical engineering and Jim McGrath, professor of chemistry, are directing the project at Virginia Tech.

The DOE is sponsoring the effort because of its charter for the conservation of fuel by finding economical materials and methods to produce automotive body...

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