Synthesis Tuning for Manufacturing Carbon Hybrid Materials

sock while Fig. 8(b) shows a low-density sock. Improved injection tuning could provide a continuous high-density sock. Our hypothesis is CHM fabric, Fig. 8(c) , can be manufactured at a higher rate and with customized properties using particle injection. Besides showing the need to improve the stability of the particle injection, which is mainly a mechanical design problem, this experiment also indicated that mixing ferrocene with the NPs and injecting them separately from the fuel seems to make the sock formation more uniform as compared to injecting Zn NPs with the fuel in the mixer. A higher percentage of NPs can be injected when they are mixed with ferrocene. The optimal ratio of NPs to ferrocene, and the possibilities to compound NP mixtures using different metals need to be investigated. Overall, the CHM process is an emerging technology and some of the first results evaluating this new process are presented in this paper.