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This book considers advanced composite materials based on carbon fibers and several kinds of matrices and is divided into three main parts. The first presents an alternative way to process and prepare carbon fibers issued from either natural or artificial precursors. It introduces recent achievements in carbon fiber technologies, including their main physical characteristics as high modulus or high strength type. The second part presents both classical and novel ways to prepare carbon matrices. The chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique as well as chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) inside a porous preform are analyzed. In addition, the book describes the liquid impregnation of a preform by a pitch or some other precursor. The associated C-C composites exhibit high thermal and mechanical properties, useful, for example, in airplane brakes and space rockets. Finally, the book explains other carbon based composites, with polymers or cement as matrices including the role of interfacial characteristics as wetting or adhesions for their final application.; Fibers and Composites will be of interest to engineers, graduate students and researchers in the field of solid state physics, chemistry and materials science.

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