Carbon nanotube fibres made at Rice University are now stronger than Kevlar and are inching up on the conductivity of...
A modern aeroplane’s fuselage is made from multiple sheets of different composite materials, like so many layers in a phyllo-dough...
In work that aims to protect soldiers from biological and chemical threats, a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists...
Polymers reinforced with ultra-fine strands of carbon fibres epitomise composite materials that are “light as a feather and strong as...
A team of researchers from Florida State University’s High-Performance Materials Institute is developing a new design for a heat shield...
A lightweight telescope that a team of NASA scientists and engineers is developing could become the first to carry a mirror made of carbon nanotubes in an epoxy resin.