Activated carbon-containing fibrids

A non-shedding sheet structure consisting essentially of aramid fibrids, activated carbon particles having a surface area of at least 500 m.sup.2 /g, and from about 2% to 50% by weight fiber floc wherein the activated carbon particles are encapsulated within the fibrids, by the process steps of:

• dispersing in a mixture containing a solvent and dissolved aramid polymer, carbon particles such that the weight ratio of carbon to polymer in the mixture is from 1:1 to 6:1 and introducing the mixture under vigorous stirring into a liquid which extracts the solvent and causes the polymer to precipitate as fibrid structures encapsulating the activated carbon particles such that the activated carbon particles retain 85 to 95% of their absorbent capacity per gram of carbon compared to that of a control as measured by the adsorption and retention of carbon tetrachloride vapor.