Consortium for Production of Affordable Carbon Fibers (CPACF) in the US. Project Id#: MAT125 - Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Predictive Tools for Low-Cost Carbon Fiber.
Project objectives - 1) Develop an integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) suite capable of predicting select mechanical properties of carbon fiber (CF) tow all the way down to the feedstock chemicals. 2) Provide a map of common high-volume low-cost major feedstocks from petroleum, coal and biomass relative to CF production and end CF mechanical properties.
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