SlashGear

Carbon Fiber Has Serious Problems, Here's What Might Replace It

Carbon fiber's blend of incredible strength and low weight has revolutionized modern engineering. Today, you see it in everything from wind turbines and airplanes to carbon fiber car parts and sports ...
CompositesWorld

DOE-funded researchers developing high-throughput, low-cost carbon fiber

The DOE-funded Carbon Fiber Design Project has developed, and aims to scale up, fibers with noncircular geometry optimized to ...
SlashGear

Carbon Fiber Explained: What It Is, How It Works, And Why It's So Expensive

If there's one fascinating fact about spiders that everyone knows, it's that their silken webs are deceptively strong. It can have a tensile strength of up to around 1000 megapascals, which can be ...
C&EN

Acetic acid breaks down carbon fiber–reinforced polymers

Lightweight yet strong and resistant to corrosion and weathering, carbon fiber–reinforced polymers (CFRPs) are used in aircraft, shipping containers, natural gas storage tanks, wind turbine blades, ...