composite material

A new laminate is translucent, break-resistant, very lightweight and able to diagnose itself before it fails

New cutting-edge composite material can cool itself down under extreme temperatures

Taking aircraft manufacturing out of the oven

Vehicle body made from cotton, hemp, and wood

Composite materials can be designed in a supercomputer ‘virtual lab’

Dr Anish Roy. Credit: Image courtesy of University of Loughborough

Revolutionary device makes machining composites as easy as ‘cutting through butter’

Helicoidal structure of the mantis shrimp club.

Mantis Shrimp Stronger than Airplanes

3D microvascular networks for self-healing composites: Researchers were able to achieve more effective self-healing with the herringbone vascular network (top) over a parallel design (bottom), evidenced by the increased mixing (orange-yellow) of individual healing agents (red and green) across a fracture surface. Credit: Jason Patrick

Repeated Self-Healing Now Possible in Composite Materials

Researchers develop 4D printing technology for composite materials

Mixing Nanoparticles to Make Multifunctional Materials

Tanks, graphene! Rice advances compressed gas storage

Butterfly wings + carbon nanotubes = new ‘nanobiocomposite’ material

Printing artificial bone

UNL team’s discovery yields supertough, strong nanofibers

How NASA’s Giant New Space Telescope Will Make Life On Earth Better