JEC Asia: Carbon Nexus

Mr. Brad Dunstan is the Chief Executive Officer of Victorian Centre for Advanced Materials Manufacturing and Adjunct Professor of Carbon Nexus.  Carbon Nexus is a world-leading centre of excellence in research solutions to the global carbon fibre industry.

It is facilitating its diverse, market-ready innovations using the world’s first university based carbon fibre line in a research environment capable of producing industrially relevant quantities of aerospace grade carbon fibre.  Using polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor, each year the plant is capable of producing up to 20 tons output of 12k to 320k tow size carbon fibre for research purposes and specific mission tailored applications.

Carbon Nexus incorporates a suite of out-of-autoclave technologies including rtm, vartm, ovens and the novel quickstep process to allow industry to explore the performance of new fibres in real-world composite structures.  Its researchers routinely run tensile tests on the carbon fibres produced in the facility using a favimat (ai) robot2.  The favimat resolves labor-intensive issues previously associated with tensile testing. 

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