Industry Digest

New research by Greene, Tweed, a Pennsylvania-based aerospace supplier, and Aerolia, a French aerostructures Tier 1 supplier, has successfully advanced the use of thermoplastic composite materials for...

Researchers the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and aluminum manufacturer UC RUSCAL have developed fiber reinforced aluminum (FRA), which is stronger than aluminum and cheaper and...

MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researchers have produced a sponge-like composite material that helps convert water to steam by using sunlight only one-hundredth as bright as what conventional...

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but we might soon be able to make carbon fiber from trees. Gerald Tuskan of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Biosciences Division postulates that in 50 years, scientists will be...

After setting the world speed cycling record of 83.13 mph (133.78 km/h) last year with the composites-intensive VeloX 3 recumbent bike, The Human Power team at Delft University of Technology and the VU...

With more and more major auto manufacturers turning to composites to make stronger and lighter chassis, bodies, springs, wheels and other parts, one 3D printing laboratory is taking the movement a step further...