“…In continuous processes, this is mostly accomplished with two furnaces with a low and a high temperature regime. The resulting carbon structures are formed by the gaseous decomposition of the heteroatoms like nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen which is followed by an overall mass loss, a decrease of fibre diameter, and an increase in density [2,3,90,114,[121][122][123][124]. Decomposition rates are different for the specific heteroatoms as well as for skin and core [13,22].…”