also woven glasfiber is used in aerostructures (radar-dome). in addition fiberglass textiles are used a lot in the sports industry such as skis, sailing and motor boat industry as an alternative to carbon fiber textiles which are more expensive. Nonwoven Glasfiber is also used for insulation in kitchenovens. Glasfibers can be colored, it just needs to happen before the fibers are spun and not in combination with the cotton. Carbon fibers are mostly made from PAN a synthetic polymer which then gets carbonized, so its in most cases synthetic fiber and not organic (pitch based carbon fibers cound be calles organic, but they are rarely used due to a high price). It's a good video, but i think you could have easily included even more interesting and sometimes more accurate information.
Thanks for the interest in this video! Love all the information that you brought to the surface. Take into account that the information in the video is very elementary, meant for people who are surprised to read "glass fibre" in textiles. Anyway: 1. You are right: glass fibre is used in nonwoven, woven and sometimes also knitted form in a number of different applications (from sportswear to aerospace and filtration). 2. Glass fibre can be indeed colored, but not with conventional textile dyestuffs. 3. "Mineral fibres" are divided in "natural mineral fibres" (asbestos is the only mineral fibre in nature, along with few others) and "man-made mineral fibres", such as glass, carbon, ceramic, etc. Carbon fibre can be obtained by PAN (most of the times) or rayon (rarely, but rayon is not synthetic). It's true that generally the starting material is synthetic, but is conventionally defined as "mineral" to discern from conventional synthetic fibre (polyester, polyamide, etc.). Your points are all correct, but they'd need much much more time to deepen some topics. I decided to cut and sum up the information to avoid being too technical and long winded. Appreciate you are pointing all this out though, gives me more ideas for future videos, perhaps carbon fibre! Cheers mate!
also woven glasfiber is used in aerostructures (radar-dome). in addition fiberglass textiles are used a lot in the sports industry such as skis, sailing and motor boat industry as an alternative to carbon fiber textiles which are more expensive. Nonwoven Glasfiber is also used for insulation in kitchenovens. Glasfibers can be colored, it just needs to happen before the fibers are spun and not in combination with the cotton.
Carbon fibers are mostly made from PAN a synthetic polymer which then gets carbonized, so its in most cases synthetic fiber and not organic (pitch based carbon fibers cound be calles organic, but they are rarely used due to a high price).
It's a good video, but i think you could have easily included even more interesting and sometimes more accurate information.
Thanks for the interest in this video! Love all the information that you brought to the surface. Take into account that the information in the video is very elementary, meant for people who are surprised to read "glass fibre" in textiles. Anyway:
1. You are right: glass fibre is used in nonwoven, woven and sometimes also knitted form in a number of different applications (from sportswear to aerospace and filtration).
2. Glass fibre can be indeed colored, but not with conventional textile dyestuffs.
3. "Mineral fibres" are divided in "natural mineral fibres" (asbestos is the only mineral fibre in nature, along with few others) and "man-made mineral fibres", such as glass, carbon, ceramic, etc. Carbon fibre can be obtained by PAN (most of the times) or rayon (rarely, but rayon is not synthetic).
It's true that generally the starting material is synthetic, but is conventionally defined as "mineral" to discern from conventional synthetic fibre (polyester, polyamide, etc.).
Your points are all correct, but they'd need much much more time to deepen some topics. I decided to cut and sum up the information to avoid being too technical and long winded.
Appreciate you are pointing all this out though, gives me more ideas for future videos, perhaps carbon fibre! Cheers mate!