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materialstoday Apr 05 04:00 am 

Web Industries Inc a provider of prepreg composite formatting technologies and services has joined the ThermoPlastic Composites Research Center TPRC based in Enschede The Netherlands.

Daily Mail Apr 05 04:16 am 

Engineers at the University of South California and UC San Diego have created a new type of metallic glass that is 588 times more resistant to damage than stainless steel and can bounce when dropped.

materialstoday Apr 05 04:16 am 

AIC Group has delivered an advanced composite processing oven to Terma Aerostructures AS in Denmark.

materialstoday Apr 05 04:45 am 

Last July as it flew past Pluto NASAtrades space probe contained a small but significant piece of space history a small carbon fiber piece of SpaceShipOne. Liz Nickels looks back at the groundbreaking composite commercial spacecraft eleven years on.

Scientific American Apr 05 05:48 am 

The artisttrades famous flowers are turning from bright yellow to brown because sulfates he used degrade under light -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

SpaceDaily Apr 05 01:17 am 

Gurpreet Singh Kansas State University associate professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering and his research team have developed a paperlike battery electrode using silicon oxycarbide glass and graphene.

gizmag Apr 04 09:07 pm 

Bulk metallic glasses BMGs are artificial materials that boast superior strength and hardness to conventional metals due to a jumbled arrangement at the atomic level. By tweaking this recipe just a little researchers have been able to produce a bouncy material with the highest degree of elasticity of any BMG something they say could come to form everything from new drill bits and body armor...

Reuters via Yahoo Canada News Apr 04 03:34 pm 

Boeing Co said on Monday it had picked a new aircraft seat supplier for its most popular jet the 737 a move that industry experts said adds competition to leading seat makers Zodiac Aerospace and BE Aerospace . In response to questions from Reuters Boeing said it will buy seats directly from the new supplier LIFT by EnCore of Huntington Beach California - a break from the past practice of...

PR Newswire Apr 04 04:39 pm 

NEW YORK April 4 2016 PRNewswire -- Carbon fiber is the new-generation reinforced fiber and made into carbon fiber composites including the most widely used CFRP by adding of resins metals ceramics concrete and other materials mainly used in the fields of aerospace automobiles...

PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Apr 04 05:00 pm 

SYDNEY April 5 2016 PRNewswire --Unified Weapons Master UWM a new combat sport that combines advanced patented technology with traditional weapons martial arts has unveiled its Lorica Mk II the next generation of its intelligent combat armour in the company39s first official combat test event. Six international weapons martial artists battle tested the new armour during UWM39s Vital ...

EE Times Asia Apr 04 05:03 pm 

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin have found a way of making cost-efficient and compact sensor heads significantly improving handling. The sensor heads that were available in the past have been expensive and unwieldy up until now.

PR Newswire Apr 04 05:25 pm 

LONDON April 4 2016 PRNewswire --This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Nanofibers in US Thousand. The Global market is further analyzed by the following End-Use Segments Energy ChemicalMechanical and Others. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the...

Lim Kit Siang Apr 04 05:53 pm 

M. Bakri Musa 5th April 2016 A discussion on the free mind begins with clarifying three related terms brain mind and mindset. The brain is the jelly-like structure in our skull part of our central nervous system. To use the language of computers the brain is the central processing unit of our nervous system. It

SPACE.com via Yahoo UK & Ireland News Apr 04 02:19 pm 

Conventional photo surveys might not be able to penetrate Titan39s dense haze but the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer VIMS on board NASAtrades Cassini spacecraft is one of the few instruments that can see through it to probe the surface below. Now researchers are pulling together 12 yearstrade worth of VIMS data to create the detailed and global maps shown above. Cassini has flown past Titan...

materialstoday Apr 04 09:31 am 

A new study from North Carolina State University researchers in the US reports that light-weight composite metal foams CMFs could be significantly more effective at insulating against high heat than the conventional base metals and alloys they are made of.

materialstoday Apr 04 10:00 am 

Huntsman Advanced Materials has developed a new epoxy resin system and a new efficient process which could give an entirely new compression molding concept.

materialstoday Apr 04 10:01 am 

Teijin Aramid and MACRO Industries have announced a collaboration agreement to develop more durable fire-resistant air freight containers using lightweight Twaron fiber.

Ars Technica Apr 03 10:34 am 

Before tools get to work and hardware launches this research group helps NASA with RD.

Business Mirror Apr 03 08:12 am 

A new green-reversing technology to remediate oil spills on fresh and marine waters is being explored by the Environmental and Biotechnology Division of the Department of Science and Technologytrades Industrial Technology Development Institute DOST-ITDI. Led by Emelda A. Ongo her five-member team has developed a mixture of chitosan a by product of chitin from

Ozy via Yahoo! News Apr 02 05:00 pm 

With everything ski-related going all steel and carbon fiber fans of winter sports are embracing some voluntary simplicity wood.

materialstoday Apr 01 08:15 am 

Composites UK the Trade Association for the UK composites supply chain reports that it has surpassed its 250 member company mark with 20 year-on-year growth.