What exactly is carbon fiber, and what makes it amazing? I see all these fancy cars like Audi and BMW using carbon fiber, but can’t any company just replicate that pattern?
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Carbon fibre isn’t the pattern, it’s the composite material, mats of woven incredibly strong carbon filaments encased in tough resin.
The pattern is a byproduct of this process (it’s the weave of the topmost mat), and is just visibly appealing and looks fancy, so they leave it unpainted.
So yes, ANY person or company can replicate the pattern and make composites. It’s just not a particularly cheap one, the carbon fibre mats are expensive to make. The appropriate resins aren’t cheap either.
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