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Vapor-Grown Carbon Fibers

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Carbon Fibers Filaments and Composites

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Long before the invention of the electron microscope allowed the discovery of filamentous carbon, or before the march of polymer technology empowered engineers to make the first rayon-based carbon fibers, primitive technology existed for the preparation of vapor-grown fibers. The 1889 patent of Hughes and Chambers [1] which describes the growth of “hair-like carbon filaments” utilized a feedstock of hydrogen and methane pyrolyzed in an iron crucible. The fibers were thought to be suitable for electric light bulb filaments, but lack of modern process controls made them uncompetitive.

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  1. Physics Department, General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren, MI, 48090-9055, USA

    G. G. Tibbetts

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  1. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    J. L. Figueiredo

  2. University of Minho, Minho, Portugal

    C. A. Bernardo

  3. Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA

    R. T. K. Baker

  4. University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    K. J. Hüttinger

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Tibbetts, G.G. (1990). Vapor-Grown Carbon Fibers. In: Figueiredo, J.L., Bernardo, C.A., Baker, R.T.K., Hüttinger, K.J. (eds) Carbon Fibers Filaments and Composites. NATO ASI Series, vol 177. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6847-0_3

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