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R&D programs at colleges and universities around the world are where composite innovation blossoms. Students can create life-changing applications using composite materials and, with the help of industry leaders, put these applications into practice.

3D Printing Used to Make Carbon Fiber Printing Robot

Basia Dżaman, a student at Poznań, Poland’s School of Form, has created a machine that can print and weave carbon fiber. Dżaman modified robots by KUKA, a renowned industrial manufacturer, by adding...

Georgia Researchers Find Cost-Effective Method for Nanofiber Manufacturing

Researchers at the University of Georgia have found a way to streamline the process of creating thin polymer strings, known as nanofibers. These polymers, which can be used to create plastic, rubber or fiber,...

NYU Researchers Develop Rugged Composite Lighter Than Water

A team of researchers from Deep Springs Technology (DST) and the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering have developed the first lightweight metal matrix syntactic foam. The matrix composite, made with a...

Four members of CERN’s 3,000-person Large Hadron Collider team survey the enormous particle accelerator during installation of the CFRP component (the bar with the “A”).

CFRP Accelerates Higgs Boson Research

In 2012, CERN researchers discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson – nicknamed the “God Particle” – and scientists celebrated a historical moment in physics. Now, composites have entered...

Drew Sfirri, a full-time composites technician in the Composites Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) at Southern Maine Community College, performs tensile testing on Shimadzu AG-X materials testing and inspection equipment.

Closing the Education Gap

If you ask owners or managers of composites companies to name their top business challenges, you’ll likely hear this among the answers: “I just can’t find enough skilled, educated employees!” Yet an...

A Rice University study inspired by mother-of-pearl produced Universal Maps that reveal composites' structural properties

Rice University Study Produces ‘Universal Maps’ That Reveal All Composites’ Structural Properties

A Rice University study will help scientists and engineers judge the ultimate strength, stiffness and toughness of composite materials for anything from nanoscale electronics to buildings. Rice researchers...