Graphene may replace carbon fibres in high performance applications

9 June 2010

Carbon fibres are used for manufacturing in light weight high performance applications such as racing cars, aircrafts etc due to their light weight and excellent strength. Now a team of material scientists and physicists from the University of Manchester are exploring grapheme for the replacement of carbon fibre.

Graphene is a two dimensional carbon layer and it was first discovered by physicists Prof Andre Geim and Dr. Kostya Novoselov of the University of Manchester and it is one of the stiffest materials and recent study indicates that it is one of the strongest materials also.

Researchers now at the University of Manchester investigated the properties of the graphene when mixed with other materials and research findings were published in the journal Advanced Materials. Researchers put a single grapheme sheet between the layer of polymers and used Raman Spectroscopy and measured the vibration change frequency.

As Raman Spectroscopy gave the sufficient information on graphene for vibrational energy and after computing the vibrational energy change, the stiffness of graphene for different polymer composite was calculated. Using this information, researchers are now designing the grapheme based materials that can be as stiff as carbon fibre and will replace the carbon fibre in future for high performance applications.

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