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Electroplating Carbon Fibers Can Have Interesting Results

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Re: Electroplating Carbon Fibers Can Have Interesting Results

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More interesting than copper as used in the example would be nickel or rhodium.

Can you explain more about this? Do these have certain properties that you find beautiful, or useful?

Probably corrosion resistance, if I had to guess.

Re: Electroplating Carbon Fibers Can Have Interesting Results

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More interesting than copper as used in the example would be nickel or rhodium.

Can you explain more about this? Do these have certain properties that you find beautiful, or useful?

Strength to weight ratio and high temperature properties.

Re: Electroplating Carbon Fibers Can Have Interesting Results

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An easy path to metal matrix composites.

As someone who has spent some time and effort attempting to develop this exact process, it's limited by poor fiber adhesion to the metal matrix.

Unfortunate but not entirely surprising. Though perhaps the fiber pull out strength could be increased by modifying the compositions of the metals/fibers to increase the binding strength. Or perhaps fiber geometry. Interesting process though nevertheless.