Tag: Composite Materials
Parley for the Oceans turns waste plastic into sunglasses
A collection of limited-edition sunglasses are the first product to be launched as part of a new fundraising platform that seeks to recycle plastic...
The world’s smallest house—even a mite doesn’t fit through the door
A French nanorobotics team from the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, assembled a new micro-robotics system that pushes forward the frontiers of optical nanotechnologies....
A soft solution to the hard problem of energy storage
It's great in the lab, but will it actually work? That's the million-dollar question perpetually leveled at engineering researchers. For a family of layered...
Building Momentum Trains Marines in 3D Printing
The US Marine Corps is known for innovating on the fly, and Building Momentum, in conjunction with their LulzBot 3D Printers, is helping them...
AREVO created the world’s first true 3D-printed commuter bike
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AREVO®, the leader in software-controlled additive manufacturing technology, today introduced a new CEO and a $12.5...
3D printer that can create complex biological tissues – UCLA
Device could help advance regenerative medicine
A UCLA bioengineer has developed a technique that uses a specially adapted 3D printer to build therapeutic biomaterials from multiple...
A super green fuel for fuel cells
Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University have developed a fuel cell that uses lignin, a cheap by-product from paper manufacture...
Twisting cracks impart superhero toughness to animals
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Super-resilient materials found in the animal kingdom owe their strength and toughness to a design strategy that causes cracks to...
World’s first family to live in a 3D-printed home
A family in France has become the first in the world to move into a 3D-printed house. The four-bedroom property is a prototype for...
The photoexcited graphene puzzle solved
Light detection and control lie at the heart of many modern device applications, such as the cameras in phones. Using graphene as a light-sensitive...
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