Carbonaceous fiber or fiber assembly with inorganic coating
AssigneeThe Dow Chemical Company
InventorsFrancis P. McCullough, Jr., Steven L. Brewster, R. Vernon Snelgrove, George C. Higgins
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Abstract
A thermally stable ceramic and/or metal coated carbonaceous fiber batting, fiber tow, yarn or fabric which maintains loft, has some degree of resiliency and some degree of stability in the presence of various concentrations of oxygen at elevated temperatures.
Claims10
An oxygen and thermally stable flexible fiber batting structure comprising carbonaceous fibers with a ceramic surface coating thereon, said carbonaceous fibers comprising resilient shaped reforming elongatable non-linear non-flammable carbonaceous fibers, said fibers having a reversible deflection ratio or greater than 1.2:1 and an aspect ratio greater than 10:1.
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