Nikhil Gupta is an associate professor, and Steven Zeltmann is a student researcher, in the Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at ...

The first laminate made from Toray Advanced Composites’ (Nijverdal, Netherlands) unidirectional (UD) prepreg tape made with carbon fiber-reinforced LMPAEK polymer from Victrex (Clevelys, U.K.) for the ...

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

BMW M will use natural fiber composites in future production vehicles. The material was developed with Bcomp and has been ...

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

can't be easily replicated by a molded carbon fiber composite laminate. But any relatively simple molded part could be replaced with such a material for weight savings.

In experiments with an advanced composite known as thin-ply carbon fiber laminate, the team demonstrated that layers bonded with nano stitching improved the material's resistance to cracks by up ...

Straightforward reaction expands ability to recycle strong, lightweight materials used in applications such as wind turbines ...