With the low weight and high tensile
strength properties, carbon fiber is widely used in many industry or commercial
fields. With the growing range of applications, carbon fiber industry faces
many problems because of the depletion of fossil raw materials and its energy-intensive
production processes.
The new composite carbon fiber research
project in Europe is focusing on renewable biomaterials to reduce the
dependence of fossil materials for carbon fiber production process. It is aim
to find the less cost and environment friendly producing process to break developmental
"bottle-neck" by traditional processes.
The research project called LIBRE (Lignin
Based Carbon Fibres for Composites) is leading by ITCF Denkendorf. By
cooperating with other researchers, ITCF Denkendorf will try their best to
develop the advanced technology on raw carbon fiber with lignin materials.
The whole project not only has scientific
value, but also has huge commercial value to expand the application of carbon
fiber and push the material revolution.
The project will be funded by EU HORIZON2020 for four years. The funding amount is 4.9 million euros. There are 12 participating companies or institutes in the project. The carbon fiber will be among the first used in automotive and wind energy fields.
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