Boeing and Airbus have led the way for the use of modern composites and have achieved incredible advancements through ...

The 787's carbon fiber fuselage changed aviation. The problems it introduced are still being resolved.

This Chery new plug-in hybrid model is jointly developed by Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering (NIMTE) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chery Auto. This model has a core ...

A team of researchers from Singapore and the UK, led by Dr. Wei Liang Lai, with supervisor, Associate Professor Kheng Lim Goh, has developed a portable device for repairing hard-to-see damage in ...

The MP4/1’s carbon-­fiber chassis looked much like an aluminum one painted black, but midway through the season a string of two podiums and a win proved the difference. Establishing the precise ...

A research institute under China Sinopec has achieved a key technological breakthrough in wet-process T1000-grade ...

Bugatti is renowned for creating some of the world's most incredible and exotic cars. Almost every vehicle out of Molsheim deserves a place in the Automotive Hall of Fame. Cars like the Bugatti Veyron ...

BMW has unveiled a new lightweight material that could serve as a greener alternative to carbon fiber, offering reduced CO2 emissions in the process. After testing it in racing environments, natural ...

A composite carbon-fiber material bonded directly on the pipe surface provides an alternative for obtaining standoff for completion and drilling tools, production riser systems, pipe-in-pipe flowlines ...

A carbon fiber is prepared for mounting in a device to test its adhesion to a polymer matrix. ORNL researchers are using polymer nanofibers to increase the adhesion, and thus the performance, of ...

A new biotechnological process shows how to break down and remove the matrix from carbon fiber reinforced polymers so that recovered carbon fiber plies exhibit mechanical properties comparable to ...

Technically speaking, carbon fiber dates back to 1879, when Thomas Edison created it out of cotton and bamboo slivers to produce lightbulb filament. However, it wouldn’t be refined into the strong, ...