摘要 |
A fiber made of pitch is disclosed. In the preferred and illustrated embodiment, the fiber has a percent elongation of about 2 percent or greater. This fiber is made by melt spinning an optically isotropic pitch to form a fiber typically in the range of about 5 to about 50 microns diameter, treating the fiber with an oxidizing atmosphere, subsequently removing a certain portion of the oxidant thereby reducing the weight of the fiber, with the optional post-treatment step of repetitively stretching in the elastic range short of breakage to increase the percent elongation.
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