Carbon fiber is one of the most impressive materials out there. It is stronger than steel, yet so lightweight that it's used in everything from airplanes and tough parts for supercars to high-end ...

Carbon fiber looks easy to repaint, but multiple prep and finishing steps determine whether the result holds up or fails ...

Carbon materials, such as carbon fibers and activated carbons, are essential across a wide variety of fields, encompassing everything from aerospace engineering to fuel cells and thermal insulation.

China National Building Material Group Co has put three world-class high-performance carbon fiber production lines into ...

If you've spent anytime around performance vehicles — cars, high speed boats, aircraft, bicycles, etc. — you've likely seen carbon fiber used somewhere in the construction. It might seem like wizardry ...

This Chery new plug-in hybrid model is jointly developed by Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering (NIMTE) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chery Auto. This model has a core ...

A team of researchers from Singapore and the UK, led by Dr. Wei Liang Lai, with supervisor, Associate Professor Kheng Lim Goh, has developed a portable device for repairing hard-to-see damage in ...

Bugatti is renowned for creating some of the world's most incredible and exotic cars. Almost every vehicle out of Molsheim deserves a place in the Automotive Hall of Fame. Cars like the Bugatti Veyron ...

A composite carbon-fiber material bonded directly on the pipe surface provides an alternative for obtaining standoff for completion and drilling tools, production riser systems, pipe-in-pipe flowlines ...

BMW has unveiled a new lightweight material that could serve as a greener alternative to carbon fiber, offering reduced CO2 emissions in the process. After testing it in racing environments, natural ...

(Yicai) June 29 -- Shares of Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber surged after the Chinese company said its three high-performance ...

Technically speaking, carbon fiber dates back to 1879, when Thomas Edison created it out of cotton and bamboo slivers to produce lightbulb filament. However, it wouldn’t be refined into the strong, ...