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 is a short term for products called carbon fibre reinforced polymer.
Basically it’s a bunch of strands of carbon fibre (which is really strong and stiff) oriented in a bunch of different directions and held together with a binding polymer, like an epoxy.
The advantage is that it’s very strong relative to its weight, the disadvantage is it can fail catastrophically (literally, it can shatter.)
Any company can make components out of carbon fibre… it just costs more.
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