Growth of carbon black onto continuous carbon fiber to produce composites with improved mechanical and interfacial properties: A step closer to industrial production

Performance of carbon fiber (CF) reinforced composites mainly depends on the tensile strength and interfacial bonding strength between fiber and the matrix. However, most of the surface modification technologies for CF may result in decrease in its tensile strength in both laboratory scale and commercial production. Herein, carbon black (CB) was decorated onto the surface of CF by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. SEM, TEM and AFM...