Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a low-cost carbon fiber that could lower the cost of blades for wind turbines. The fiber begins as widely available raw material used in the ...

Although carbon fiber can be repaired and recycled to a certain extent, it's typically just discarded once damaged. According to a recent study, however, a new type of the material can be easily fixed ...

Radici InNova’s patented process uses selective dissolution technology to treat mixed textile waste and recover both its ...

The performance of the final product depends heavily on the degree of cure - making it critical to ensure that the reaction goes to completion for the highest quality and reliability. Achieving this ...

Carbon fiber is one of the most impressive materials out there. It is stronger than steel, yet so lightweight that it's used in everything from airplanes and tough parts for supercars to high-end ...

Five color variants of the fungus Aspergillus nidulans. The dark green color strain is the wild-type and the others are pigment production pathway mutants or deletants. When aircraft parts, wind ...

New Jersey Fibershed is an affiliate of a global movement that supports creating more sustainable clothing and fabrics from ...

DLR has demonstrated the use of a 19.5-kHz sonotrode (slender silver cylinder at center of system above) to consolidate fibers impregnated with melted thermoplastic from pellets (storage and melting ...

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The 2002 Ferrari Enzo marked a turning point for Maranello’s road cars, taking the rarefied “halo” concept and rebuilding it ...

The recent development in the utilization of flexible optical fiber sensors and the prospective application scenarios were then summarized, which encompass human activity monitoring and healthcare, ...