Recent Advances in Polymer-Based Carbon Fibers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Fibers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 1750
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bio-inspired materials and approaches for stretchable electronics
Interests: biodegradable polymers; biomaterials; block polymers; polymer chemistry
Interests: sensing; energy; nanomaterials; wearable electronics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is devoted to highlighting the exceptional properties of carbon fibers (CFs), such as high tensile strength, low thermal expansion, electrical conductivity, durability, chemical resistance, radiolucency, ultra-violent resistance, and light weight. The industry of carbon fibers, involving the aerospace, military, construction, coating, film, microelectronics, energy storage, biotechnology, and sporting goods sectors, has grown continuously. The high production cost of carbon fiber (CF), the lack of high-speed fabrication techniques, difficult customization, and the limitations at the design phase limit the use of these fibers in various applications, including CF composite-based wearable sensors. Even though CF is durable, it is also brittle, so when it breaks, it often breaks devastatingly. Using polymer blending, polymer-based CFs, CF-reinforced composites, or converting synthetic or degradable fibers into CFs could overcome these limitations.
Thus, this Special Issue welcomes contributions that utilize unconventional methods of optimising advanced polymer-based carbon fibers, with subsequent improvements in cost, structure and properties. These improvements might involve developing new precursor materials and production techniques for CFs, developing advanced polymer-based CFs with advanced functional properties, polymer blending and using composites with CFs, or using high-performance polymer-based CFs, degradable polymer–CF composites, or CF-based hybrid composites for any of the above-mentioned applications.
We look forward to receiving your contributions
Dr. Adeela Hanif
Dr. Muhammad Ayyoob
Dr. Le Thai Duy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced polymer-based carbon fibers
- carbon fiber-reinforced composites
- polymer-based composites
- polymer blends
- cost-effective carbon fibers
- novel production process of carbon fibers
- carbon-based hybrid composites
- carbon fiber-reinforced polymers
- high performance polymer-based carbon fibers
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