Griffith University Racing Team Succeeds with Composites
The Griffith University Racing Team car, known as GRT19 Bronte, was designed and engineered by students at Griffith with the help of the ATL Composites team to compete in the Formula SAE...
World’s Largest 3D Printer at UMaine Advances Opportunities for Composites
The University of Maine (UMaine) Advanced Structures and Composites Center received three Guinness World Records for the world’s largest prototype polymer 3D printer, largest solid 3D-printed object, and...
Rowan University Project Will Develop Composite Materials Used to Protect Soldiers
Rowan University will lead a $14.5 million Department of Defense/Army Research Lab project to create new composite materials – and ways to process those materials – that will help modernize the Army and...
New Bio-Based Composite Material Based on Structure of Tiny Crustacean
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new bio-inspired composite material based on the structure of a tiny crustacean. The unique structure, called a helicoid, prevents cracks...
Curiosity Fuels Research
Inquisitive researchers at universities worldwide are advancing composite materials, technologies, processes and applications. American folklorist and author Zora Neale Hurston once said, “Research is...
Sodium-containing Household Compounds Can Help Grow Carbon Nanotube
MIT’s (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics reported that sodium-containing compounds found in common household ingredients such as baking soda and table salt are...
