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History. Carbon fibers produced by pyrolysis of a silk cocoon. Electron micrograph—scale bar at bottom left shows 100 μm. In 1860, Joseph Swan produced carbon fibers for the first time, for use in light bulbs. [5] .
The modern era of carbon fibers began in 1956, when Union Carbide opened its Parma Technical Center just outside Cleveland. The complex was one of the major laboratories of Union Carbide’s basic research program, modeled after the university-style corporate labs that became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s.
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the history of carbon fibres and carbon fibre composites, the current global CFRP development and production, the trends of CFRP development in aerospace, wind turbine, automotive, pressure vessels, sports and leisure, construction, and other sectors.
Carbon fiber has an illustrious history, with its roots dating back to the 1860s when Sir Joseph Wilson Swan made the initial discovery. Its journey began with modest developments in the mid-20th century, finding limited applications.
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan first created carbon fiber in 1860 to use in an early incandescent light bulb. In 1879, Thomas Edison used cellulose-based carbon fiber filaments in some of the first light bulbs to be heated by electricity. Their high heat tolerance made them ideal electrical conductors.
Here, we show PAN-based carbon fibers' history and future for this 50-year milestone. The industrialization of carbon fiber began in 1959, when Shindo discovered how to stabilize PAN. The later discovery of comonomers based on the Morita-Baylis-Hilman reaction by Morita in 1966 further enabled industrialization.
Carbon fibers have been classified on the basis of the fiber structure and degree of crystallite orientation: ultrahigh-modulus (UHM), high-modulus (HM), intermediate-modulus (IM), high tensile strength (HT), and isotropic carbon fibers.