Nanomaterials
Multifunctional composites: past, present and future
Dr. Les Lee at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Dr. James Thomas at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory give insights into the history of multifunctional composites, the drivers for their development and where they are headed.
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Aerocomposites: The move to multifunctionality
Designers envision aircraft components that do more than bear structural loads, but must first confront great complexities to actualize greater functional efficiency.
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The end of delamination?
A spin-off from MIT's NECSTlab, N12 Technologies Inc. launches NanoStitch, the world's first vertically aligned CNT product via a continuous industrial process, which bridges adjacent CFRP plies, boosting interlaminar shear and increasing fatigue life by 100%.
Read MoreCNT-enhanced prepregs: commercial & production-capable
N12 Technologies’ NanoStitch and Surface Layer System (SLS) products are part of a new generation of nanomaterials aimed at delivering macro-level benefits in products produced at commercial scale.
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SPE ACCE 2015 show report
Was this the year, finally, for the big break-through for automotive composites? Maybe, depending on to whom one talked or the presentation one heard.
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Summer vacation and MEMS/nanotechnology
Revisiting the past, while the future is happening in my home town.
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Looking for Lindberghs
Every paradigm-shifting invention throughout human history has been met with skepticism. CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan says the composites industry has need of those willing to attempt what most believe impossible.
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Incremental thinking just won’t cut it!
Composites industry consultant and regular CW columnist Dale Brosius says if this industry is to have a future that goes anywhere profitable, then we've got to get off the road we're on and map out a whole new way to think about the tasks at hand.
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Fully transparent, rollable electronics built with graphene/CNT backbone
Carbon nanotubes and graphene provide mechanical properties and bonding enabling high-temp polyimide resin to provide flexible circuit substrate.
Read MoreOCSiA1 wins Frost & Sullivan's North American Award for Technology Innovation
The company's TUBALL single-wall carbon nanotubes can be produced at a commercial scale at very low cost, and are poised to improve the properties of many materials.
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