Stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum, carbon fiber is a staple in aerospace and high-performance vehicles — and now, ...

A spider web is a lot of powerful, lightweight strands in a very compact package, and so is carbon fiber. Roger Bacon was one of the very first to develop carbon fibers as we understand them today.

Through a novel electrospinning technique, researchers have effectively achieved a “bridge” between carbon fiber and its ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an innovative new ...

Hunt Wheels has announced the release of two wheelsets that are now utilising carbon fiber technology which will allow products to be recycled at the end of their lives. Dubbed H_Cyclo, the ...

ORNL researchers developed a new method to enhance carbon fiber composites using carbon nanofibers for improved strength and ...

Study: Experimental Research on Bonded Anchorage of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Prestressed Strands. Image Credit: prapann/Shutterstock.com. Background. Due to the improvement of the global ...

Lexus is not exactly a manufacturer known for ultra low-volume limited edition cars. The only exception is the LFA, and there ...

But carbon fiber -- strands of carbon atoms bonded together in a matrix -- is particularly tough to recycle into new useful materials. "It's usually a woven material combined with a matrix, often ...

So, he took carbon fiber extension poles and Faraday tape and made a ... Clearly, the 0.5 to 1 mm sized CF strands in FDM filaments aren’t easily inhaled, but as described by ...

The BMW iX features an assortment of carbon fiber panels called a Carbon Cage, for example. At the time of this writing, the proposed ban (which hasn’t been approved yet) would only apply to cars.