Toray: Creation of the world’s 1st porous carbon fiber: continuous, nano-sized void structure
Toray: Porous carbon fiber
Toray Industries, Inc. has created the world’s first porous carbon fiber with a nano-sized continuous void structure.
The newly developed material will be used for the “support layer that supports the structure of the gas separation membrane”.
Greenhouse gas (CO2) separation
Lightweight and compact high performance separation membrane for hydrogen production
Separation performance can be improved.
Material: culmination of technology
Toray’s polymer technology
Carbon fiber technology with the top share
Separation membrane technology such as water treatment
It was created by fusing.
Material: Features
Utilizing polymer technology, we have created “porous carbon fibers in which all pore voids and carbon are regularly continuous”.
This pore void structure allows the pore size to be made arbitrarily from the nano level to the micro level.
It is also possible to make a hollow fiber shape with a hollow at the center of this porous carbon fiber.
Material: Field of use
This porous carbon fiber has excellent adsorption performance.
As an application that takes advantage of its characteristics,
Electrode material
Catalyst carrier (base material to fix other substances) etc.
Application to high-performance batteries is also possible.
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