Category: Industry Digest

Autoneum is advancing battery protection for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) with a portfolio of lightweight composite solutions that enhance safety, thermal management, and efficiency. The company’s new battery lid...

AeroVironment (AV) secured a $20 million, 39-month Ceramics Advanced Materials and Processes (CAMP) contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Materials and Manufacturing Directorate to advance next-generation ceramic...

The idea behind the morphAIR project from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is a wing structure that can change shape during flight, making...

To enable cost-effective assembly and repair of thermoplastic sandwich components in small- to medium-scale production, new joining technologies must be developed. The Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and...

GE Aerospace led the adoption of carbon fiber polymer matrix composites in commercial jet engines since introducing the GE90 in 1995, the first engine to feature composite fan blades....

Penn State’s Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE) is dedicated to advancing vertical lift technologies across areas such as aeromechanics, propulsion, acoustics, and flight dynamics. Penn State is...

In research backed by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, Shell, The Carbon Hub, and others, a team at Rice University’s Smalley-Curl Institute demonstrated that wires...

Millions of tons of sawdust are produced every year with much of it being burned to generate energy, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A research team at the...

Wind is becoming increasingly important as a clean energy source worldwide. Accordingly, larger wind turbines with higher performance expectations are being manufactured to meet these needs. As performance demands...