composite material
Boeing funds strategic carbon fibre recycling collaboration
In the past decade, researchers at Nottingham led by Dr Steve Pickering have developed ways to recycle carbon fibre composites. They have worked with Boeing…
Crash-safe battery protection for electric cars
If an electric car wants to be environmentally friendly it must weigh as little as possible, because when the light turns green every additional pound/kilogram…
Carbon nanotube composites for enzymes and cosmetics
Hiroyuki Muto and colleagues at Japan’s Toyohashi University of Technology (Toyohashi Tech) have developed an innovative method for producing CNT (carbon…
Researchers Develop Revolutionary Biobased Resins From Crop Materials
The NDSU researchers have developed a family of resins from renewable raw materials, creating resins that eliminate hazardous components such as formaldehyde…
Molecular sorting for resource efficiency: new separation and recycling processes
Researchers from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany will take on this challenge in a pioneering new project, funded as part of the…
Manipulating light at will
The researchers say the results of their latest proof-of-concept experiments could lead to the replacement of electrical components with those based on optical…