1k Carbon fiber fabric and Carbon fiber fabric's history Carbon fibers fabric are polymers of graphite, a pure form of carbon where the atoms are arranged in big sheets of hexagonal rings that look like chicken wire. Bacon’s graphite whiskers were sheets of graphite rolled into scrolls, with the graphite sheets continuous over the entire length of the filament. “After studying the heck out of these things, I finally published a paper in the Journal of Applied Physics in 1960,” Bacon says. The paper has since become a milestone, partially because some have claimed that Bacon may have been the first person to produce carbon nanotubes—hollow cylinders of graphite with diameters on the order of single molecules. Their incredible properties have made nanotubes one of the hottest areas of research in recent years, promising to revolutionize just about every area of science. Sumio Iijima published a paper in 1991 that is often regarded as the first disco…