The new woven fabric is made with 3K (3,000) carbon fiber filament yarn for applications requiring low weight and design flexibility, such as automotive interior materials and sporting goods. Teijin, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story. Carbon fiber is a brilliant high-performance material with excellent strength-to-weight properties, but it remains expensive and impractical to ...

Carbon fiber is known for being incredibly strong, lightweight, and versatile—but how is it actually made? This article breaks down the key stages of carbon fiber manufacturing and shows how different ...

This is the first NCAMP qualification of a carbon fabric reinforced thermoplastic composite material. It is also the first NCAMP qualification of pre-consolidated laminates, which can be used for ...

Millions of endurance runners use footwear that has an embedded carbon fiber plate (CFP) in the midsole. While the performance benefits that carbon fiber plate footwear offers have been well ...

Microwave Chemical Co. has applied its microwave heating technology to carbon fiber production, reportedly cutting energy use by 50% and CO2 emissions by 90%. Photo Credit: MWCC Microwave Chemical Co.

After range and charging time, a concerning factor of electric vehicles, like the 2022 BMW iX, is weight. For the same size vehicle, an EV will be heavier than its ICE counterpart due to the weight of ...

Lithium-sulfur batteries' high theoretical energy density and affordability make them excellent devices for storing electrochemical energy. The primary issues that lithium-sulfur batteries encounter ...

After work with BMW showed cuboidal tanks could provide higher volumetric efficiency than multiple small cylinders, TU Munich began projects to develop a composite design and manufacturing process ...