Excellent article. I am currently researching Carbon Fiber Manufacturers and have found PCT so far to be the best. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

What is involved with making tables and a bar for a restaurant using carbon fiber?

I am thinking of using small carbon fiber discs to simulate fish scales in a flexible knee pad for sports. will the impact from a fall on concrete or rocks shatter penny sized discs?

Carbon fibers will shatter when blunt force is applied. This is useful in a chassis such as an F1 car, is that when the frame is impacted, it will not transfer the force by crumpling, but rather will disperse the energy by shattering, thereby making it safer.

I read that although carbon fiber can withstand extreme bending due to its flexibility, it is not nearly as resilient when it comes to blunt force and will shatter. if this is true how can it be used in vehicles or aircraft?

Could carbon fiber be made from carbon waste from coal burning electric generating plants?

i am in a high school HMV class and i was wondering if it would make sense to use carbon fiber instead of alloys.

I am doing a project about carbon fibre and I need to know its breaking strength and its cost per square meter.

Can carbon fiber be used in flight(like in blimps not airplanes)?

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i am 3rd year mechanical engineering student and i am doing project on use of lightweight materials in automobiles. since carbon fiber is the best option can you please give me details regarding the same.

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I am interested in the question above concerning several strands of carbon fiber known as a tow. Specifically, if it can be wound around an object, what is its strength, how long can it be produced and the approx cost per foot. Thank You

I am an A-level student studying in england and i am making a presentation about carbon fibre and its use in formula one cars is there any information that you can give me in reference to carbon fibre, its properties and anything of interest to me.

thank you for your time.

i have a project on how carbon fiber is produced and the time frame it take to produce it by each machine and process by time.

Dear Sir,

It is a pleasure for me to take the opportunity to contact a real specialist in his field. I was amazed to find out that a personal website can offer the widest scope of information on carbon fibre and its use. Congratulations and thank you!

As you know much better than a dilettante as I am, carbon fibre has already penetrated deeply into world's highest technology. Unfortunately, a small number of people can enjoy the beauty and strenght of this material. As an executive manager of a small Bulgarian company, I would like to give people from my county the chance to touch the might of carbon in different forms, use and design, in different fields of industry. And more, to give them the best carbon fibre in order to improve their production and enter the market with interesting and modern products, made of or combined with carbon fibre.

Unfortunately, I am have already mentioned I am truly a laic in the fully science field and I hope that opening your website shall turn out to be a lucky coincidence.

The questions that first occur to a person that have seen carbon fiber only in formula 1, are what carbon is used for reinforcing car parts or deigning new furniture for example or even making a coffee cup out of carbon fibre, where can such carbon fibre be found, what do I do when I get it, how is it processed etc.

You seem to be only man in the virtual space that seemingly knows the answers of those question! With the fear of too much flattering, I would like to express my admiration and hope to receive your reply!

Why is it so expensive?

Most of the information I have found on carbon fiber is about woven material, not the single strand. Most of the facts are written for engineers and math majors, not the layman. I would like some information in a straight-forward, user-friendly format.

For example, how thick is a single strand? How much weight will a single strand of carbon fiber hold? Will it oxidize when exposed to a flame of, say, 500 degrees Fahrenheit? Does the process of oxidation weaken the fiber? Is this a fast process, although I do not mean burning or exploding, or does it take place over an appreciable amount of time? When oxidizing, does it come to a point of complete disintegration or will it maintain structural cohesion? (Iron oxide, for example, does not disintegrate but it's structural integrity isn't high, either.)

There is a product called, I believe, a tow: several strands constituting one long line. How thick are these and how much weight do they hold per single line.

I know there are different kinds of carbon fiber, but I'm interested in any that may have the good mix of these abilities: carries a load, relatively inert to a low temperature flame and does not stretch appreciably.

Much obliged