Gen2 Carbon Fiber
Gen2 Carbon Fiber
(OP)
I see the term Gen2 or GenII for Carbon Fiber but can't find a definition. Is this a newer type of CF or namebrand of a CF manufactured material or???
Graydon Tranquilla P.Eng Electrical
Industrial Oil and Gas Industry,
APEGBC, APEGGA, APEGS, APEGM





RE: Gen2 Carbon Fiber
Typically though resins and fibres get given letter or number extensions to denote a modified formula. Gen 2 sounds like a marketing thing.
In connection to what type of product do see the reference? A lamiante sold cured and ready to use could simply be improved by choosing better materials or processing techique.
Good luck with further responses.
RE: Gen2 Carbon Fiber
As far as I can tell no one has a 'gen 2,' and it is not applied to a 'type' of fibre that I've ever heard. They only 'type' distinctions made are high strength (HS, sometimes HT for high tenacity), intermediate modulus (IM, and actuallly stronger than HS), high modulus (HM) and ultrahigh modulus (UHM). Sometimes a distinction is made between PAN-based (made from polyacrylonitrile fibre) and pitch-based (made from mesophase pitch; this type most commonly get to the UHM grade, with an E above 440 GPa, and pitch-based can have the mad electrical and thermal conductivies. See Cytec's K-1100).
I suspect that the 'gen 2' or 'gen II' applies to the structure that the fiber is made into or possibly the vehicle that the structure is on.