{"id":22136,"date":"2024-04-04T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22136"},"modified":"2025-04-06T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T12:10:10","slug":"carbon-fibre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/carbon-fibre\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Fibre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Carbon Fibre<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a material consisting of <strong>thin, strong crystalline filaments of carbon<\/strong>, essentially carbon atoms bonded together in long chains.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Properties<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a high stiffness and stiffness-to-weight ratio.<\/li>\n<li>It has high tensile strength and strength-to-weight ratio.<\/li>\n<li>It has high-temperature tolerance with special resins.<\/li>\n<li>It consists of <strong>low thermal expansion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also has high chemical resistance.<\/li>\n<li>The fibers are extremely stiff, strong, and light, and are used in many processes to create excellent structural materials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Currently, India does not produce any carbon fibre, relying entirely on imports from countries such as the US, France, Japan and Germany.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Applications<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is essential for various applications such as fighter planes\u2019 noses, civilian airplanes, drone frames, car chassis and fire-resistant building material.<\/li>\n<li>It is a critical material in <strong>technical textiles<\/strong> and is known for its <strong>high strength and lightweight<\/strong> properties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)?<\/h3>\n<p>These are a type of carbon with a diameter of nanometers and a length of micrometres.. CNT is made up of enrolled cylindrical graphitic sheets (named graphene) wrapped up into a seamless cylinder with a nanometer-sized diameter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/economy\/india-plans-to-make-carbon-fibre-in-response-to-eu-carbon-tax-11711968558679.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India plans to make carbon fibre in response to EU carbon tax<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon fibre is a material consisting of thin, strong crystalline filaments of carbon, essentially carbon atoms bonded together in long chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}