Nanomaterials

PEEK 31 Oct 2015

Aerocomposites: The move to multifunctionality

Designers envision aircraft components that do more than bear structural loads, but must first confront great complexities to actualize greater functional efficiency.

Adhesives 21 Oct 2015

The end of delamination?

A spin-off from MIT's NECSTlab, N12 Technologies Inc. launches NanoStitch, the world's first vertically aligned CNT product via a continuous industrial process, which bridges adjacent CFRP plies, boosting interlaminar shear and increasing fatigue life by 100%.

Nanomaterials 30 Sep 2015

CNT-enhanced prepregs: commercial & production-capable

N12 Technologies’ NanoStitch and Surface Layer System (SLS) products are part of a new generation of nanomaterials aimed at delivering macro-level benefits in products produced at commercial scale.

Carbon Fibers 14 Sep 2015

SPE ACCE 2015 show report

Was this the year, finally, for the big break-through for automotive composites? Maybe, depending on to whom one talked or the presentation one heard.

Nanomaterials 29 Jul 2015

Summer vacation and MEMS/nanotechnology

Revisiting the past, while the future is happening in my home town.

Prepregs 2 Mar 2015

Looking for Lindberghs

Every paradigm-shifting invention throughout human history has been met with skepticism. CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan says the composites industry has need of those willing to attempt what most believe impossible.

Hi-Temp Resins 2 Mar 2015

Incremental thinking just won’t cut it!

Composites industry consultant and regular CW columnist Dale Brosius says if this industry is to have a future that goes anywhere profitable, then we've got to get off the road we're on and map out a whole new way to think about the tasks at hand.

Bonding 26 Jan 2015

Fully transparent, rollable electronics built with graphene/CNT backbone

Carbon nanotubes and graphene provide mechanical properties and bonding enabling high-temp polyimide resin to provide flexible circuit substrate.

Nanomaterials 8 Dec 2014

OCSiA1 wins Frost & Sullivan's North American Award for Technology Innovation

The company's TUBALL single-wall carbon nanotubes can be produced at a commercial scale at very low cost, and are poised to improve the properties of many materials.