Characterisation of carbon fibres recycled from carbon fibre/epoxy resin composites using supercritical n-propanol

G. Jiang; S. J. Pickering; E. H. Lester; T. A. Turner; K. H. Wong; N. A. Warrior

doi:10.1016/j.compscitech.2008.10.007

Characterisation of carbon fibres recycled from carbon fibre/epoxy resin composites using supercritical n-propanol

G. Jiang
, S. J. Pickering^*
, E. H. Lester
, T. A. Turner
, K. H. Wong
, N. A. Warrior

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Three different PAN based carbon fibres (Toray T600S, T700S and Tenax STS5631) were recycled from epoxy resin/carbon fibre composites using supercritical n-propanol. The recycled carbon fibres were characterised using single fibre tensile tests, SEM, XPS and micro-droplet test. The tensile strength and modulus of the recycled carbon fibre was very similar to the corresponding as-received carbon fibres. However, the surface oxygen concentration decreased significantly, which caused a reduction of the interfacial shear strength with epoxy resin.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	192-198
Number of pages	7
Journal	Composites Science and Technology
Volume	69
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2008.10.007
Publication status	Published - Feb 2009
Externally published	Yes

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A. Carbon fibres
A. Recycling
A. Supercritical n-propanol

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Ceramics and Composites
General Engineering

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