In the Journal of Applied Polymer Science, researchers reported results from an experiment where they added two biologically derived chemicals found in certain fruits into a precursor material for carbon fiber.
Before they used the chemicals in the lab, researchers turned to computer modeling to get a preview of what would happen when they added the two chemical compounds to the precursor material.
Then they push the “honey” through a tiny needle to transform into a small filament, like a tiny hair.
The study, “Cyclization kinetics of gel-spun polyacrylonitrile aldaric-acid sugars using the isoconversional approach,” was authored by Banerjee, Dedmon, Ford, Farzin Rahmani and Melissa A.