Carbon fibers are usually produced on an industrial scale from polyacrylonitrile (PAN). The stabilization and carbonization of the fibers takes place with long dwell times in high-temperature furnaces ...
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After winning a JEC Innovation Award in 2016 for its Lincoln MKS Decklid Concept – a TCA Ultra Lite® outer panel and a carbon fiber RTM prototype inner – ...
Finished carbon fibers derived from bitumen. Photo Credit, all images: UBC Applied Science/Paul Joseph A new process developed at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada) has the potential to ...
RapidMade Inc. thinks its new thermoformable carbon fiber process, Aerolite, has real potential to disrupt how to make lightweight, high strength-to-weight ratio parts. The company is collaborating ...
UC Riverside chemical engineering researchers have completed construction of a multi-kilogram-scale biomass processing ...
The new process, called gel electrospinning, is described in a paper by MIT professor of chemical engineering Gregory Rutledge and postdoc Jay Park. The paper appears online and will be published in ...
Optical fiber helped bring us the Internet, and silicon/germanium devices brought us microelectronics. Now, a joint team from Penn State University and the University of Southampton has developed a ...
[Thomas Sanladerer] wanted to make 3D prints using carbon fiber and was surprised that it was fairly inexpensive and worked well, although he mentions that the process is a bit intense. You can learn ...