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AprofessorinVirginiaTech'sCollegeofSciencewantstopowerplanesandcarsusingenergystoredintheirexteriorshells.Hemaynowhavediscoveredapathtowardthatvisionusingporouscarbonfibersmadefromwhat'sknowna
TheUSUniversityofKentucky’sCenterforAppliedEnergyResearch(CAER)hasreceivedaUS$1millionU.S.DepartmentofEnergy(DOE)granttocontinueitsresearchindevelopinglow-cost,high-strengthcarbonfiber.Thecenter
TheInstituteforComputationalDesignandConstruction(ICD)andtheInstituteofBuildingStructuresandStructuralDesign(ITKE)attheUniversityofStuttgartarecurrentlyresearchingaproductionprocessforstructuresbasedo
Nickel-coatedcarbonfibresmayoutperformcarbonmeshincompositeaircraft?Drivenbytheneedtoreduceweightandimprovefuelefficiency,overthepasttwodecades,aircraftmanufacturershaveincreasinglyturnedtocarbonfibre
ScientistsattheDepartmentofEnergy’sOakRidgeNationalLaboratory(ORNL)intheUShavedevelopedarenewable3Dprintingfeedstockwhichuseslignin.Ligninisthematerialleftoverfromtheprocessingofbiomass.Itgivesp
HexcelCorporationsaysthatithascompleteditsacquisitionofARCTechnologiesLLC,asupplierofcustomradiofrequency/electromagneticInterferenceandmicrowaveabsorbingcompositematerialsformilitary,aerospaceandindu