Thermostable fibres and the carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics made from them

The specific features of creation of highly thermostable composite materials based on thermostable fillers and binders are examined. There has been some progress in synthesis, modification, and pilot-industrial production of polyimides that satisfy the many-sided requirements of the 21st century. The possibility of assigning products of thermochemical reactions of polymers based on polyacrylonitrile to thermostable organic compounds capable of modifying thermostable binders is discussed. The necessity of theoretical studies of modeling the thermal transformations of the initial products in composite mixtures is demonstrated. The necessity of structural orientation of macrochains of the reacting components for realization of the cocarbonization principle is substantiated.