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Moving towards more personal acknowledgments, I would like to thank all my friends for their support and enormous amount of patience they had with me-it was quite difficult to listen about all my problems with experiments, modeling, lab equipment, weird result numbers, and so on. На краjу, желео бих да се захвалим своjим родитељима и сестри, за свесрдну и несебичну подршку и помоћ током свих ових година. Њихово разумевање за све моjе проблеме и веровање у мене су ми увек давали мотивациjу и охрабрење у остваривању моjих великих циљева и без њих никада не бих постао ово што сам данас.

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This experimental study aims at the in situ growth of carbon nano-fibers (CNFs) on relatively large (25 × 30 cm 2 ) single-layer carbon-fiber fabrics. It is shown that CNFs can be grown with the distribution potentially suitable for a future use in polymer-matrix composite materials. Details of tuning the catalyst deposition method and the CNF growth process are presented and analyzed. In particular, the Ni catalyst deposition method and the type of solvent are shown to strongly influence the uniformity of a CNF growth on carbon fibers, and sometimes even processibility of the whole specimen.