Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:carbon fibre with high tensile modulus and enhanced strength

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Today's KNOWLEDGE Share

Toray develops Torayca™ M46X carbon fibre with high tensile modulus and enhanced strength


Toray Industries, Inc. announced that it has developed Torayca™ M46X carbon fibre. The new offering is around 20% stronger than others in the Torayca™ MX series while maintaining a high tensile modulus. Utilizing Torayca™ M46X reduces the weight of carbon fibre-reinforced plastic materials, lowering its environmental impact.


Typically, there is a trade-off between the tensile modulus and strength of carbon fibre. Boosting the strength while maintaining the modulus of carbon fibres with a tensile modulus exceeding 350 GPa presents technological challenges. However, the sporting and leisure goods market demands both qualities to maintain performance while utilizing less carbon fibre to lower the weight of molded parts.



Toray developed Torayca™ M46X by pushing the structural control technology envelope. Nano-level controls of the graphite crystallite structure inside fibres resulted in an ultrafine, ultrahigh orientation producing carbon fibre that is more than 20% stronger than conventional materials while maintaining its tensile modulus.


The company will also deploy Torayca™ M46X prepreg, with the resin matrix utilizing the proprietary NANOALLOY®1 microstructure control technology. The new product will significantly enhance compressive strength to boost stiffness while retaining strength, reducing the weight of finished products and broadening design flexibility.



Developing high-performance carbon fibres with a high tensile modulus exceeding 350 GPa began with Torayca™ M40 with graphitized yarn2. Successors were Torayca™ M40J in 1984 and Torayca™ M46J in 1986 in response to robust demand for the high-modulus Torayca™ MJ carbon fibre series. Toray continued to develop technologies to balance the tensile strength and modulus. The Torayca™ MX series was created by applying technologies to control graphite crystallite structures and orientations3 inside fibres. The first offering in this series was the Torayca™ M40X, launched in 2018. This product has since earned a solid reputation as a high-performance carbon fibre and prepreg (a resin-impregnated intermediate base material) matching market requirements.


Toray will continue developing new products that help transform the economy through the enhanced performance and processability of carbon fibre and prepreg.


1. Nanoalloy is a Toray-developed microstructure control technology that can dramatically improve properties compared with conventional materials by minutely dispersing multiple polymers on a nanometric scale.

2. Graphitized yarn is a carbon fibre heat-treated at high temperature in a graphitization furnace.

3. Graphite crystallite structures and orientations refers to graphite crystallite structures growing, and orientation increasing after treatment at high temperature in a graphitization furnace.


Source:Toray/jeccomposites.com

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