A team of U.S. engineers has developed a fiber composite material that can heal internal damage more than 1,000 times, ...

A new composite material with passive cooling has been found to raise both the power and longevity of solar cells. The material, a sodium polyacrylate-LiCl composite that was affixed to the rear ...

The breakthrough addresses a critical structural failure known as delamination, where layers in fiber reinforced polymer (FRP ...

Green Science Alliance Co., Ltd. (President: Ryohei Mori) in collaboration with Osaka Metropolitan University has successfully developed a novel material that combines organic pigments with silica ...

The newly invented fiber composite could stretch the lifetime of these structures from decades to centuries.

UD’s Center for Composite Materials reflects on a legacy of innovation and charts a course for the next half-century From hockey sticks to jetliners, composite innovations developed at the University ...

Composite materials have revolu­tionised a wide range of industries, including aerospace and automotive, offering unrivalled strength, lightness and design flexibility compared to more conventional ...

More and more aircraft are rolling off the production line with a primarily composite structure. Are these harder to repair ...

A new study reports a highly effective and sustainable material for capturing rare earth elements from water, offering a ...

Composite and hybrid materials constitute a rapidly advancing field in materials science, wherein two or more distinct constituents are combined to produce synergistic properties unavailable in the ...

Japanese washi paper is renowned for its aesthetic beauty and its wide-array of usages. Now, a group of researchers have made a green composite material from washi which boasts a 60% increase in ...