The following video and documents provide additional technical information describing Fi-Bar™product applications, market applicability, and comparisons to existing competing fibers.

HFC layer is near diamond hardness * High-temperature material (3900 C melt) * Density: VC has a higher density (12.2 gm/cc). TaC/C is light-weight 2.5 to 4 gm/cc with carbon core * Key feature: High-temperature stability. Forms mixture with TaC

This group of silicon-converted PAN carbon fiber filaments, passed through ACF's Direct Conversion Process, are the basis for the company's CMC materials designed for extreme environments. The base carbon fiber can be seen as the black center of each filament, and the uniform, white outer layers are silicon carbide (SiC).

Advanced Ceramic Fibers, LLC works with the Idaho SBDC on commercializing enhanced fibers into game-changing composite products.

Today, the chemical, mechanical, and thermal properties of Fi-Bar™ fiber make it an attractive degradation-resistant high temperature reinforcing ceramic for use in infrastructure, transportation, energy, aerospace, and defense applications. The following article, prepared by the Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, provides a summary of the Alpha Silicon Carbide/Carbon "Direct Conversion Process™."