 The Institutes for Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK) and for Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology (ITM) at TU Dresden have founded a joint research center for carbon fibers. In the Research Center Carbon Fibers (RCCF), the institutes want to research the material from the fiber raw material to the finished component and discover new properties and possible applications. According to  the institute, the newly installed and unique equipment is used by scientists to research the basis for tailor-made carbon fibers under clean room conditions. Individual plant modules for stabilization and carbonization with industry- oriented furnace design and individually adjustable parameter combinations are used. The center comprises an ISO 8 class clean room of more than 300 m². In addition to the two existing stabilization  and carbonization modules, there will  be space for any future expansion of the facility, such as another high-temperature furnace in which carbon fibers can be  graphitized up to temperatures of over 2000 °C, or unique coating systems for surface activation. |Scientists examine a newly developed fiber© Lichtwerke Design Fotografie