I'm a bit of an insomniac and all sorts of random stuff goes through my head!  This time its composite related.  My thought is this:

We spend some effort considering fibre orientation for strength.  Has anyone ever considered resin orientation?  The resin is just polymer chains which we infuse into the fibre and link in a completely random orientation.  Whilst this gives a uniformly random matrix is this the best option?  If we could align resin chains and then cure or cross link in a certain orientation could we achieve better / stronger parts?  Could we 'grow' polymers through the fibre?  When I get work experience students we make nylon and I have them pull the fibre continuously out of the beaker as it grows so it should be possible. 

Anyways, enough of my ramblings for a pseudo friday.  What do you guys think?

The theory is possible.  You have to balance the strength difference between the polymer chains themselves, and the links/bonds between the chains. 

The difficulties of this are all down to practicality.  You are trying to align long molecular chains in such a restricted environment around another element.

Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant