Electroforming Carbon Nanofibers

Until a chemist gets here I'll try to help;

Are you looking for methods for carbon fiber or carbon nanotubes?

I believe the products and processes are fundamentally different - and given the materials are the rage everywhere, perhaps your poor search results are due to mixing the two terms?

It's possible. I have used Boolean search queries to reduce junk and come up with mostly secretive and vague descriptions and decided to exclude the term "patent" after heaps of junk and spurious ideas and methods.

Still on a search for that elusive nanofibre/nanofibers. I have used both "nanotubes" and "nanofibers" with not much in return, which is why I asked here...maybe that this is still a fledgling industry with many people seeing $$$ and hence not saying much and throwing a patent at everything.

I did find a reference to chucking the polymorph graphite into a microwave to create a structured sheet...but I don't think the missus will like that one

I have never heard of sheets of carbon nanofibers, although I have heard of fibers being made from carbon nanotubes/spheres/buckyballs, etc.

Research in carbon nanotubes is still quite in its infancy, so I wouldn't expect to see it commercially available yet.

If you're looking for carbonized polyester fabric, then it's available commercially and used in loads of applications from fishing rods to stealth fighters.

thanks, it is my limited belief that nanotubes are made in singular layers to form multiple sheets termed (correctly or not) nanofibers. I am beginning to feel that the lack of concrete information may prove you to be correct, that this field is still in its infancy. Have seen some references to carbon fiber sheets, even for sale on Ebay

The area I am looking into, is possibly a passing fad for me...and someone has touched on what I am kind of looking into. Firefly have created a carbon graphite foam grid LINK which is similar in principle and purpose to what I am looking into.

I will try those search options and see how I go...thanks for that

Check out this company, which is making large sheets of carbon nanotube-based cloth:

http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/02/large-sheets-of-carbon-nanotube.html

This cloth weighs 0.1g/sq meter !!!

yeah, saw that one...was pretty awesome job!