Is carbon fiber affected by ‘car cancer’? | Business

Rust marks corroded steel or iron – rust is just iron oxide. Although aluminum does not technically rust, it is also subject to corrosion. The aluminum hood of the Ferrari 550 Maranello, as the owners of these cars remind, often suffers from corrosion. Time and environment affect everything, so I wonder if ultra-expensive carbon fiber sports cars will look as good in a few decades as they do now.

Jaguar Project 8 carbon fiber wing. Most of this car is made of carbon fiber. The basis of carbon fiber production is not very complicated. Remember that organic matter is based on carbon and other elements can be removed. Charcoal is made, figuratively speaking, by roasting wood, removing everything but the carbon from it. If we take any organic fiber and remove everything that isn’t carbon, we get carbon fiber.

Carbon fiber was first developed for light bulbs. It was first created in the laboratory in 1860 – it was the invention of the English physicist and chemist Joseph Swan. Later, in 1879, Thomas Edison turned bamboo or cotton fiber into carbon fiber.