Nanomaterials
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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Smart carbon nanotubes for wind turbine blade anti-icing system
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing researches develop energy-efficient method to free turbine blades from ice in seconds.
Read MoreOCSiAl looking for partnerships
The producer of very low-cost SWCNTs named TUBALL, OCSiAl is expanding its product reach and licensing production technology to partners.
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Graphene-toughened composites
Are we getting closer to commercialized, and functional, nanotechnology?
Read MoreHaydale acquires EPL Composite Solutions Ltd.
Graphenes and nanomaterials specialist Haydale will acquire EPL Composite Solutions, a specialist in the design, development and commercialization of advanced composites polymer materials in the U.K. and overseas.
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Graphene: Ready for prime time?
Advanced materials analyst Ross Kozarsky (Lux Research, Boston, Mass.) evaluates the commercial readiness of graphene-based nanomaterial reinforcements for the composites industry.
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