composites

It's estimated that by 2030 carbon and glass fibre composites (CFRP), materials commonly used in wind turbine blades, hydrogen tanks, airplanes, yachts, construction, and car manufacturing, will be a key waste stream worldwide. The annual…

A team of UCR electrical engineers and material scientists demonstrated a research breakthrough that may result in wide-ranging advancements in electrical, optical, and computer technologies. The Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of…

Nature has an extraordinary knack for producing composite materials that are simultaneously light and strong, porous and rigid -- like mollusk shells or bone. But producing such materials in a lab or factory -- particularly using…

Owing to their lightweight nature and flexibility, thermally conductive polymer composites are applied between a heat source and a sink in electronics to dissipate the generated heat to the surroundings. Efficient heat dissipation is…

Asphaltenes, a byproduct of crude oil production, are a waste material with potential. Rice University scientists are determined to find it by converting the carbon-rich resource into useful graphene. Muhammad Rahman, an assistant research…

Carbon fiber-reinforced carbon (C/C) is a composite material made of carbon fiber reinforced in a matrix of glassy carbon or graphite. It is best known as the material used in hypersonic vehicles and space shuttle orbiters, which cruise at…

Engineers at MIT and the University of Tokyo have produced centimeter-scale structures, large enough for the eye to see, that are packed with hundreds of billions of hollow aligned fibers, or nanotubes, made from hexagonal boron nitride.…

Enabling & Support 02/08/2022 19 views 0 likes Combining high strength with low weight, corrosion-resistant and shapeable into almost any form, composite materials are a key ingredient of…

Enabling & Support 08/06/2022 82 views 4 likes An ESA-led project constructed a test cylinder using a novel method of laying down carbon fibre, then tested it to buckling point within a…

A novel and eco-friendly nano asphalt binder has been developed by researchers at Swansea University and the Technical University of Braunschweig. The product generates a new class of warm mix asphalt (WMA) additive that significantly…