Scientists have developed high-strength, super-tough sheets of carbon that can be inexpensively fabricated at low temperatures. The team made the sheets by chemically stitching together platelets of ...

Mazda's patent was submitted to the German Patent and Trademark Office, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization, and it was just published in the past week. It starts out by ...

Carbon fiber -- what can't it do. The super-material is now venturing into the world of computer cooling, thanks to Sony. The electronics giant just showed off a prototype of a new cooling sheet, made ...

Carbon fiber is a material with some very unique and valuable properties. In fact, it offers the best stiffness –to-weight ratio of any material you are likely to find, either made from metals or ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In order to exploit the remarkable mechanical properties of graphene for practical applications, nanoscale graphene sheets need to be assembled into much larger, macroscopic ...

[Thomas Sanladerer] wanted to make 3D prints using carbon fiber and was surprised that it was fairly inexpensive and worked well, although he mentions that the process is a bit intense. You can learn ...

Carbon fiber parts are expensive, and that's why cars filled with composite material, such as the Lamborghini Revuelto, are such bank account breakers. But did you know that you can build dry carbon ...

In the A5, Icon Aircraft has produced an airplane that handles easily, resists dangerous spins, and treats its pilots and passengers to an open, airy cockpit. What the small company hasn’t produced, ...

The frame of a Pursuit Cycles bicycle is made of carbon fiber and weighs just 1.5 pounds. A Strong Frames titanium frame is, by comparison, a heavyweight—three pounds. Both these companies were ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Carbon fiber-reinforced polyether­therketone or CFR-PEEK implants have been used in orthopedic surgery, and ...