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The United Arab Emirates National Innovation Committee has revealed a project to create the world’s first ever 3-D printed office building. While there have been some teams in the...

NASA scientists recently announced the agency has begun prototyping a boomerang-shaped plane projected to make the first flight on Mars at some point between 2022 and 2024. “We’re going to...

Composite parts are widely used due to their unique properties, including durability. Unfortunately, even the best designed and best made parts can be damaged by unforeseen circumstances either at...

ACMA supports legislation increasing the likelihood that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will conduct a risk assessment for styrene and possibly require controls for composites industry workplace exposures and...

Researchers at the Center for Advanced Die Engineering and Technology at Gifu University and Central Fine Tool Co Ltd. have co-developed a new technology that is expected to reduce...

Aerospace engineers at MIT have developed a carbon nanotube (CNT) film that can heat and solidify a composite without the need for massive ovens. When connected to an electrical...

Tethers Unlimited’s “SpiderFab” could address one of the most difficult parts about constructing satellites, space stations or other orbiting objects: getting the materials into space. Most existing space structures...

Lightweight composite materials consisting of polymer matrices with embedded carbon nanotubes (CNTs) offer a unique combination of stiffness and strength with very high thermal and electrical conductivities, but current...

The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing (AMRC) have invested £150,000 ($231,540) in an FT Dornier Rapier Loom for its Composite Centre to weave their own...