Carbon fibers are usually produced on an industrial scale from polyacrylonitrile (PAN). The stabilization and carbonization of the fibers takes place with long dwell times in high-temperature furnaces ...

Anyone who's mucked about with consumer-grade 3D printers knows that it's infinitely cool to create stuff with them, but you can't realistically expect those products to be particularly durable. If ...

Engineers at the National Composites Centre (Bristol, U.K.), the U.K.’s center of excellence for advanced composite applications, along with British SME partners B&M Longworth (Edgworth, U.K.) and ...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a 3D printing method capable of producing geometrically complex ...