Researchers have demonstrated a new metal matrix composite that’s so light that it can float on water. The new material...
In the 1967 movie The Graduate, young Benjamin Braddock gets a now-famous one-word piece of advice about the future from a family friend: plastics.
New technique uses carbon nanotube film to directly heat and cure composite materials removing the need for expensive curing ovens.
One of the barriers to using graphene at a commercial-scale could be overcome using a method demonstrated by researchers at...
Spiders sprayed with water containing carbon nanotubes and graphene flakes have created the toughest fibres ever measured. A spiders silk...
Efforts to produce lighter vehicles necessarily include engine parts, such as the cylinder casing, which could shed up to 20%...