Manufacturing carbon fibres from pitch and polyethylene blend ...
Pitch is a general term used for a thick viscoelastic, dark substance usually obtained from coal and petroleumbased products [2].Natural pitch was historically used for shipbuilding in, for example, ancient Egypt (Fig. 1) to waterproof boats made of wooden planks joined by wooden pegs [21].In this article, we focus on the pitchderived from petroleum products because they are lowcost ...