1. Privalov, V.E. and Stepanenko, M.A., Kamennougol’nyi pek (Coal-Tar Pitch), Moscow: Metallurgiya, 1981.
2. Bataev, A.A. and Bataev, V.A., Kompozitsionnye materialy: stroenie, poluchenie, primenenie (Composite Materials: Structure, Preparation, and Applications), Novosibirsk: Izd. NGTU, 2002.
3. Ispol’zovanie neftyanykh i kamennougol’nykh pekov dlya polucheniya uglerodnykh volokon i kompozitsionnykh materialov. Obzornaya informatsiya. Ser. Promyshlennost’ khimicheskikh volokon (Use of Oil and Coal-Tar Pitch for the Manufacture of Carbon Fibers and Composite Materials: Review Information, Ser. Man-Made Fiber Industry), Kryazhev, Yu.G., Svishchenko, L.F., and Radimov, N.P., Eds., Moscow: NIITEKhIM, 1982.
4. Czosnek, C., Drugas, M., and Janik, J., Composite Interfaces, 2005, vol. 12, no. 5, p. 459.
5. Jacobson, N.S. and Curry, D.M., Carbon, 2006, no. 44, p. 1142.